Sublime

As Charles Taylor puts it, in modernity we remade the human person into a “buffered self,” protected and autonomous and independent, free to determine our own good and pursue our own “authentic” path.

Le philosophe qui a le plus défendu la philosophie comme entraînement à la fois mental et physique est le maître d’Épictète, Musonius Rufus. Rufus n’est pas aussi connu que nos autres professeurs, mais il a été le philosophe le plus estimé de son époque. On le surnommait le « Socrate de Rome ». Il enseignait la philosophie à plein temps, et s’il n’

Paul’s argument in Romans is that it was God’s will all along to justify all human beings by faith, not by works of the Mosaic Law. This is proven for Paul by the fact that Abraham, the father of the Jews, was himself justified by his faith before he was circumcised and before Moses had given the law.