>>24635073
The greatest joy is growing closer to God though, and porn is a vice that blocks the ascent of virtue.

>>24619302
It's deeply Christian, once properly understood, like all philosophy, the the extent that it is true wisdom.

>>24574434
>completely unrepentant full-on Neoplatonists.
>"Why yes, I AM doing metaphysics. Metaphysics is the king of the sciences. Just as men who are more intellectual and virtuous are naturally the masters of their inferiors, so too is the most intellectual of the sciences the master of those that lie beneath it."
>Empirical observation? Formal logical deduction? No, I fathomed this through direct noesis.
>Laotze was talking about the Logos, who is Jesus Christ. This was revealed to me in the desert on the ninth day of my fast when Saint Bonaventure, Al Farabi, and Eriugena appeared to me in a vision.
>My favorite part of the Aristotleian corpus? Probably the Theology or the Book of Causes.