Sloth (Acedia) Flashcards
Evelyn Waugh said …
Change in ethical values, evolution has revolutionised morality. Sin is no more.
Eva Brann disagreed with Evelyn Waugh because …
Humans do recognise sin. It is the intellectuals in all disciplines that try to remove an understanding from religious perspective
Day of Judgement essentially means ….
the day that debts fall due
Everything is on loan to you, been gifted and with it comes immense responsibility. Wronged yourself if not used properly. God did not wrong them, they wronged themselves.
Seven deadly sins are really …. against the self and against others.
wrongs
Evan Brann thought sin is …. against god and vice is ….. for wrong doing.
rebellion
propensity
HY says act is the …, …. is the process that led you to it.
sin
vice
Love excessive - wealth, food, flesh - similar dichotomy being…
mineral, vegetable and animal.
Too little, too much - Sin is missing the …. is either going too far or too short.
mark
Difference between ignorance or apathy.
Don’t know, don’t care
Ascidia is …. laziness - based on Evagrius’ Ponticus book, ….
Not working on the soul
spiritual
Antirrhetikos
A lot of people are busy, but not actually doing ……
So busy not a positive opposite of sloth.
anything
Bob Dylan said …..
Meaning if someone isn’t discovering new things, letting their creativity flow, or living life, they are dying.
He is not busy being born is busy dying
So the true opposite of sloth maybe ….
interest - desire to be amongst things
Eventually, considered:
Three lower sins - Pride, envy and wrath are …. love.
Sloth is …. love.
Lust, gluttony and greed. - ….. love
perverted
deficient
Natural
(Imruʾ al-Qais said …
Whenever ever war shows up, it invite every young ignoramus - something exciting, as currently bored. - sloth
HY says people have the sensory, emotional and sexual awakening, but the intellectual awakening is …. in a lot of people. HY says same goes spiritual, though related to intellectual. Agrees with the scholastics that intellect is a spiritual phenomenon. Spiritual meaning not of the …. world. Believe in the agent intellect
deferred
material
Theologian says we are going to find out in the …., scientist say we will find out in the …..
afterlife
future
HY recites Søren Aabye …. - One of the most dangerous things in the world is to lose yourself, people can lose their spouse, arm or 5$, and they will notice, but they can lose themselves without even noticing it.
HY considers Acedia to be related to that, people lose themselves in meaningless. Hence why daughter of Acedia is ….. Lack of concern comes first, then despair.
Kierkegaard
despair
HY refers to The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times - TD en viti - a problem of out time. Meaning ….
Aristotle in book 10 says that people who do not cultivate the intellectual virtues, always have recourse to ….. delights. Lust becomes a replacement. The sensual pleasures have a limit, not true of the intellectual. May have to go to sleep and recoup energy - but don’t come to limit of desire.
sensual
distractibility
Evlyn Waugh an expert in … - Ate the three bananas with cream on top despite each meant to be for his sons, and living in time of war and ration.
gluttony
Ibn Ata Allah - If you see your humility you are not humble.
So when people say in my humble opinion, a …. of humility.
negation
In Arabic, sloth is ….- Forgetfulness of one’s self - so don’t engage in the work necessary given the time we have in this world to prepare the soul for the next world
Gufla
Aquinas- Sloth is sorrow over the divine good i.e. Inability to ….. in the divine presence - lose sense of belonging to god and people of god.
It leads to kind of restless business and lethargy (Sloth does not mean being lazy). Leads to envy and other types of ……
Rest restlessness
Restlessness is one of the daughter’s of sloth which is ….. …..
spiritual apathy
