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St. Augustine and the Quest for Self-Knowledge | Prof. Michael Foley

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The Importance of Intellectual Self Knowledge

Every human mind is capable of knowing eternity. He who knows the truth knows that light, and he that knows the light knows eternity. There are two obstacles to an intellectual conversion. The first is our daily habits, which privilege the sensible world. We can basically develop a habits of laziness where we just assume that everything we know is a material reality andand is not. It was above because it made me, and i was below because i was made by it.

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