Augustine and World Religions by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781461632979
Publisher: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2013-07-11T04:00:00+00:00

After a discussion of the daemon of Socrates, Apuleius urges a turn within and dedication to the life of philosophizing:

Why, then, should not we too be roused by the example and mention of Socrates, and give ourselves over to desire to follow a philosophy like his, seeking after similar divine powers? But we are dragged down from this objective for some obscure reason; there is nothing that astonishes me more than the fact that men do not cultivate their mind, though all desire to live as well as possible, all are aware that the mind is the sole source of life, and all know that there is no alternative to cultivating the mind in order to achieve the best existence. (nn. 167–168)

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