The Consolation of Wisdom
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Certainty in Excess: Soliloquy, Knowledge, and Mystical Love in Bonaventure and Hugh of St Victor (part 2/4)
Who was privy to your design, unless you gave him Wisdom,
and sent your holy spirit from on high?
~ Wisdom 9:17
Is Bonaventure’s Soliloquy a “series of mental exercises that take the form of a dialogue,” as one modern edito...
Certainty in Excess: Soliloquy, Knowledge, and Mystical Love in Bonaventure and Hugh of St Victor (part 1/4)
And with you is Wisdom who knows your works
and was present when you created the world,
and knows what is pleasing in your eyes
and what is right according to your ordinances.
~ Wisdom 9:9
Cogito ergo sum. I think...
New and Upcoming for 2026!
Dear Readers,
Months have passed since my last “Consolation of Wisdom” Substack, and with everyone’s attention riveted on the endless stream of disconsoling news, it was probably easy to give up hope that yours truly would find his way bac...
Boethius, Lady Philosophy, and the Scene of Inner Dialogue
But where shall wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding? (Job 28:12)
Dissipated and demoralized, his body shivering in the dank cell, the prisoner bemoans the loss of his poetic powers. The Muses no longer inspire him...
Augustine, Soliloquy, and the Hermeneutical Self
Noli foras ire, in teipsum redi; in interiore homine habitat veritas (Do not go outward; return within yourself. In the inward man dwells truth)1
It is hard to imagine a bolder fusion of Hellenistic philosophy's concern with ethical-sp...
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