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24: Acedia

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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The Unnamed CDF

A vagus is writing in 345 AD and then Thomas Aquinas like, you know, not quite a thousand years later. With Aquinas, a CD and sadness get combined into one, which is sloth. But from Aquinas to today, there's a William of Occam, I think is the guy that they talk about and he removes a CD at all from his list of sins. And so that's why it's lost in that sense. It used to be a thing that was talked about up until the Middle Ages, right, until the Scholastics and then it's lost, so to speak, from that. That's me being at a poor attempt of joke.

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