[PDF.98ra] Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire

Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire

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 | #228861 in Books |  2015-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.36 x5.50l,.42 | File type: PDF | 144 pages

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||38 of 38 people found the following review helpful.| BOREDOM AND SO MUCH MORE: INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR|By David George Moore|Moore: I somewhat randomly landed upon a talk of yours where you discuss a few of the issues in the book. It was a wonderfully stimulating talk on a subject that I already knew a fair bit about. Still, it motivated me to read your book. Having now read Acedia and its Discontents, I was not disappoint|From the Back Cover|"In the arid wasteland that is academic writing, amid the wider desert that is modern secular thought, R. J. Snell's book on acedia is an oasis of flowers and fruit and fresh water. Professor Snell reminds us that man must neve

While the term acedia may be unfamiliar, the vice, usually translated as sloth, is all too common. Sloth is not mere laziness, however, but a disgust with reality, a loathing of our call to be friends with God, and a spiteful hatred of place and life itself. As described by Josef Pieper, the slothful person does not "want to be as God wants him to be, and that ultimately means he does not wish to be what he really, fundamentally is." Sloth is a hel...

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