First, the “best” memory techniques are always the ones you’reactuallygoing to use. That means you might have to try a few on for size. This means doing some research and making a plan of action for how long you’re going to stick with each memory training. (I suggest 90 days mi...
Eunuchs were actually quite a vexed subject in the Middle Ages. Some medieval eunuchs became so voluntarily, but many did not. Not all Eunuchs defined their gender in a fixed way: some, like Peter Abelard, identified as male, while others identified (or were read) as belonging to a gender...
The Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas, Great Books, Vol's I & II. Maritain - Maritain's referenced work (Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism), in our view, is unworthy of our trust. It is philosophically anachronistic which Maritain himself warns us in his preface to its translated seco...
It was a very rare disease and difficult to get, but he pictured it continually and read about it until it manifested in his body, and he died, the victim of distorted imagination. So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty. A person with an...
from Appendix A of How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren 1. Homer (9th Century B.C.?) 荷马Iliad 《伊利亚特》(古希腊描写特洛伊战争的英雄史诗, 相传为荷马所作)Odyssey 奥德赛2. The Old Testament 旧约3. Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.) 埃斯库罗斯,希腊的悲剧诗人Tragedies...
In contrast to the vibrant interdisciplinary literature on other virtues, such as forgiveness and gratitude, the study of humility has developed more slowl
English. What you have written of our Lord is at best heterodox or at worst heretical. Go back and read the Christological teaching of Council of Chalcedon. Our Lord is fully God and fully human (2prostasis), without confusion or degradation of the two natures, grounded in...