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Antirrhetikos - Evagrius
David Brakke’s Introduction to his translation of this key work by Evagrius of Pontus is well worth the read. In Evagrius I have found no one who more intensely thought about time as practice.
The Nature of Sin
Acedia and Ressentiment
Acedia and ressentiment are two of Modernity’s sins. We should learn to deal with them.
The Measure you Give…
The Other Side of the Ascetic Ideal: The Power of Forgetting
Levinas
Ressentiment Unbound: Orgies of Feeling
Evagrius on Coping with Nihilism
Ressentiment, Passive Nihilism and De-Subjectification
