Daily Reflection
“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
― Saint Augustine1
Good morning friends,
Today we continue our journey through the history of morality. If you remember, we focused last week on a conversation which evolved from Confucian, to Taoist, to Buddhist thought.
This week we zoomed in on the conversation which began with the ancient Greeks like Plato and Aristotle, then was absorbed by the Roman empire, and as we’ll see today, was then mixed with the Christian Imperial Complex. This phenomenon would absorb Greek philosophy and make a bespoke ethic for their time and place.
But first, the briefest of history lessons:
In the 200s AD or so, Rome began experiencing an instability from which it would never recover. In this time of uncertainty, the general Constantine would emerge in the 300s with an aggressive vision to re-establish the preeminence of Rome—it captivated many.
He was successful, and as a part of his campaign crea…
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