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Quotes from Inventing the Individual — Larry Siedentop

1936–2024 United States

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The Jewish sense of time was...unilinear rather than cyclical. Even the repeated lapses of Israel into idolatry did not dispel belief in God’s overall control and direction of events.

Inventing the Individual (2014)

Only the pride of the intellect could suppose that the human will can be completely self-determining. The incarnation revealed that something more is needed. ‘My mind, questioning itself upon its own powers, feels that it cannot rightly trust its own report.’ Augustine’s conception of the self became a subtle mixture of autonomy and dependence.

Inventing the Individual (2014)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Larry Siedentop (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.