Day 14: Discerning Truth and Beauty (The Confessions of St. Augustine)

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🗓️ 15 October 2023

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Summary

With the help of Aristotle’s philosophy, St. Augustine attempts to make sense of reality. He meditates on his natural understanding of challenging texts, realizing his intelligence did not immediately bring him to God. Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand Janczyk discuss the gift of intelligence and the need to use this gift to discern the true and beautiful. Today’s readings are Book 4, Chapters 15-16.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:06.0	And I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansik.
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0:27.0	This season we are reading Ascension's edition of Confessions by St. Augustine.
0:30.0	A few reminders before we get started. To download the reading plan for
0:34.1	Confessions, visit Ascension Press.com slash Catholic Classics or text Confessions to
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0:47.0	This is day 14.
0:48.0	Today we will be reading Book 4, chapters 15 and 16 in the Ascension Edition of the book.
0:54.0	If you'd like to hear some of our conversations on other subjects, follow up with us and three of our
0:58.4	brother priests on the podcast God's explaining.
1:01.6	There you'll find weekly episodes on a variety of Catholic
1:04.2	themes with occasional guests, scriptural meditations, and special series. You can
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1:14.0	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we're covering today.
1:18.0	So today, St. Augustine, who usually likes to talk about Socrates and Plato. Here he's going to talk a little bit
1:24.2	about Aristotle. Aristotle wrote a number of texts about logic and one of the first of those
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