Matthew Richey

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sloth, as Josef Pieper reminds us: (1) lacks magnanimity and the courage to accept the great dignity to which God has called us;4 (2) “does not wish to be what [it] really, fundamentally, is;”5 and (3) perverts humility, rejecting our greatness because loathing friendship with God and its concomitant obligations.
Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire
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