Homilies on the Christian Life · Lecture 010
Sayings of the Saints (Part 1)
A lecture by Dimitrios Panagopoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Dimitrios Panagopoulos expounds Anthony the Great’s teaching in the Philokalia on the truly rational human being. Rationality is not identified with accumulated learning, but with a soul that discerns good from evil, flees what harms it, and seeks what pleases God. Anthony’s definition of a true human being includes one who lives rationally in this sense or one who, after error, accepts correction and repents; refusal of correction is described as bestial. The lecture also distinguishes true freedom from license, presents mastery over passions as freedom, and warns that education without God may become socially destructive rather than virtuous.
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