the idea of order at key west

[larvatus]

As disabled 37-year-old Megan Mariah Barnes was shaving her pubes for the benefit of her new boyfriend in the driver’s seat of her 1995 Ford Thunderbird, her ex-husband Charles Judy took the steering wheel while riding bitch. Thus conjoined in harmonious operation of her automobile across the Florida Keys, they slammed into the back of a 2006 Chevrolet pickup driven by David Schoff. Barnes was charged with the misdemeanor second offense of driving with a revoked license and the felony of leaving the scene of a crash involving injuries. Judy, who had switched seats with his ex-wife in a futile attempt to claim responsibility for her offense, was not charged: “iussisti enim et sic est, ut poena sua sibi sit omnis inordinatus animus.” For Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.

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[vsha.livejournal.com]

who is "The Philosopher" in the first quote?

Et philosophus dicit, in IX Ethic., de malis, quod contendit ipsorum anima, et hoc quidem huc trahit, illud autem illuc; et postea concludit, si autem sic miserum est malum esse, fugiendum est malitiam intense. Et similiter e converso boni, etsi in hac vita quandoque non habeant corporalia praemia, nunquam tamen deficiunt a spiritualibus, etiam in hac vita; secundum illud Matth. XIX, et Marc. X, centuplum accipietis etiam in hoc saeculo.



"their soul is divided against itself . . . one part pulls this way, another that"; and afterwards he concludes, saying: "If wickedness makes a man so miserable, he should strain every nerve to avoid vice."

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is still referrence to Augustine?

[larvatus.livejournal.com]

This is a customary mediaeval way of referring to Aristotle, in this instance citing a great passage in EN 1166b19-22, concerning civil war that rages in the souls of bad men.