Title: Saint Augustine, Proto-Austrian Source:
Ludwig Von Mises Institute URL Source:https://mises.org/wire/saint-augustine-proto-austrian Published:Feb 24, 2023 Author:Connor Mortell Post Date:2023-02-24 05:24:31 by Charles_Byrd Keywords:None Views:491 Comments:3
In a past Mises Wire article, I’ve written about how Saint Thomas Aquinas’s definition of hope correlates incredibly well with what Carl Menger would describe in his definition a good six centuries later.
One of the characteristic features of Catholic thought over the centuries has been its emphasis on reason. Man’s mind, according to this tradition, is capable of apprehending a world of order that exists outside itself. Man is able to abstract “universals” from the myriad objects and sense data that appear to him and thus bring order to the chaos of mere data above which mere brutes can never ascend.
Pseudo-intellectual gobbledygook.
Vic, I need you to interpret whole article this for me.
I'm not an Augustinian Catholic, I'm afraid. So I'm not going to be able to help you here. I don't buy his whole central thesis, and can't be bothered to get into the intellectual weeds with a guy long dead with whom I fundamentally disagree.
