Tag: Augustine
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December 6, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Augustine explores both healthy and unhealthy curiosity in The Confessions. He writes: “We can easily distinguish between the motives of pleasure and curiosity. When the senses demand pleasure, they look for objects of visual beauty, harmonious sounds, fragrant perfumes, and things that are …
August 3, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Each quarter, Harrison Middleton University hosts a Quarterly Discussion. This discussion is open to students and non-students alike. They focus on a short text which everyone reads prior to the discussion. I thoroughly enjoy these because they give me a chance to break …
March 2, 2018 Thanks to James Keller, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. In leaving Carthage, Augustine abandoned his mother, Monica. A widow, she pleaded with her son not to leave – or, if he must go, not to leave her behind. She would come with him. He lied to …
June 19, 2015 Whether or not we realize it, metaphor pervades all speech. Look no further than ‘head of lettuce’ or ‘ear of corn’ to find a common example. Expressions like these often make learning a new language fun and challenging. Today’s blog ventures into figurative language from the 2014 film Guardians of the Galaxy …
