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St. Augustine- postmodernity
Title: St. Augustine- postmodernity
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 542 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
St. Augustine- postmodernity
What does St. Augustine have to say to post-modern culture?
I think that the most vital aspect in Augustine's Confessions, more specifically his books "Student at Carthage" and "The birth-pangs of Conversion", is the concept of True Love. Augustine tells us that love is paradoxically balanced between reason and passion, as both reason and passion can be both good and evil at some time or another. So it is not necessarily an equilibrium. The whole …showed first 75 words of 542 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 542 total…Dante's Inferno included- in its' true form, is a piece of the Divine in itself, or cosmos within chaos. They seek to find free-flowing connections between faith and reason, incorruptible within corruptible, and good within evil. These are the icons of truth that T.S. Eliot is reffering to when he speaks about objective correlatives. It becomes every writers' goal. Find symbols that connect mind and emotion. Both Augustine and Dante try and emulate this.
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