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Religious institutes generally follow a rule of life, i.e., one of the great religious rules as guidance to their life and growth in their religious journey.These are: the Rule of St. Basil, the Rule of Saint Benedict, the Rule of Saint Augustine, and the Rule of Saint Francis. [1]
Similarly, St. Augustine had written a millennium before, "Sonus verborum nostrorum aures percutit; magister intus est", that when a teacher speaks worthily of divine things, as the sound of the words strike our ears, it is no longer mere words but God himself who enters.
Augustine offered the Divine command theory, a theory which proposes that an action's status as morally good is equivalent to whether it is commanded by God. [16] [17] Augustine's theory began by casting ethics as the pursuit of the supreme good, which delivers human happiness, Augustine argued that to achieve this happiness, humans must love objects that are worthy of human love in the ...
If so, and if self-knowledge is the same as sophrosyne, then, as Kahn writes, "the deepest structure of the self will be recognized as co-extensive with the universe in general … so true self-knowledge will coincide with knowledge of the cosmic order". [15] [16]
Augustine of Hippo (/ ɔː ˈ ɡ ʌ s t ɪ n / aw-GUST-in, US also / ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n / AW-gə-steen; [22] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), [23] also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews and the First and Second epistles of St Peter. Translated by W. B. Johnston. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Chadwick, Henry (1986). Augustine: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Chadwick, Henry (1965). "Justin Martyr's Defence of Christianity".
The Soliloquies of Augustine is a two-book document written in 386–387 AD [1] by the Christian theologian Augustine of Hippo. [ 2 ] The book has the form of an "inner dialogue" in which questions are posed, discussions take place and answers are provided, leading to self-knowledge. [ 3 ]
Motto of St Patrick's College, Cavan, Ireland ad mortem: to/at death: Medical phrase serving as a synonym for death ad multos annos: to many years: Wish for a long life; similar to "many happy returns". ad nauseam: to sickness: i.e., "to the point of disgust". Sometimes used as a humorous alternative to ad infinitum.