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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · st. augustine · john and paul · education and the training of the young · conversion and faith
Usually: argument (1) · reverence (1)
“He would not undertake to philosophize respecting the being and character of man, and at the same time exclude from his view the very principle which constitutes his proper humanity.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inqui · insight
The philosophy taught does not replace religion but integrates it: scripture and revelation illuminate the constitution of humanity, so seekers of self-knowledge should use Augustine, Paul, and John.
others, for a light and a joy to their own minds, it must still remain, and be sought for by us, each for himself, at the bottom of the well. The system of philosophy here taught does not profess to make men philosophers, or--which ought to mean the same thing--to guide them to the knowledge of themselves, without the labour both of attention and of severe thinking. If it did so, it would have, like the more popular…