Tag: Beauty
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(one of the reasons) why I love the Proslogion
Alongside the Divine Comedy, St. Anselm’s Proslogion is my favorite piece of medieval writing, and it’s my favorite because it’s beautiful. That might surprise those who are only familiar with the text for the so-called “ontological argument,” the arguments of the second and third chapters that demonstrate not only that God exists but that He cannot…
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Excited to Read Dante Again
I saw a sun above a thousand lamps; it kindled all of them as does our sun kindle the sights above us here on earth; and through its living light the glowing Substance appeared to me with such intensity- my vision lacked the power to sustain it. O Beatrice, sweet guide and dear! She said…
Dan Yingst 