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The Philosophy of Solitude

In Our Time: Philosophy

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St. Augustine and the Confessions of St. Benedict

You mentioned saint augustine. Could you develop anything he said in tis, in thi yon text? Well, augusti ithink it's very important, a not so much as or what he has to say about solitude and the confessions. But he is the author, really, of the first monastic rule. He begins by reading cicero and this renunciation and so on. Then he tussles with the question of evil. Eventually he comes to an understanding that is a combination of platonism and christianity.

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