Building upon many years of privately shared thoughts on the real benefits of Stoic Philosophy, Liam Milburn eventually published a selection of Stoic passages that had helped him to live well. They were accompanied by some of his own personal reflections. This blog hopes to continue his mission of encouraging the wisdom of Stoicism in the exercise of everyday life. All the reflections are taken from his notes, from late 1992 to early 2017.
The Death of Marcus Aurelius
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Justice Vanquishes Sins
Antoon Claeissens, Justice Vanquishes the Seven Capital Sins (c. 1600)
I'm not saying that in a catty way, btw. It's genuinely interesting; I wonder if the artist was trying to say something about the nature of those sins by portraying them that way.
Careful, such a discussion will get the blog banned ;-)
The "classical" distinction and complementarity of the masculine and the feminine are now almost completely lost to our culture. As soon as we think of the relationship as a war, all is lost.
You will very rarely find the Virtues represented as male, though in the previous post Mars stands in for Fortitude, There is a reason for this, but I imagine you already understand it.
Justitia, of course, is a woman ,and always will be.
In this painting, the two Sins represented as male are Wrath and Gluttony. One might move Lust over as well, but it could go either way, as ultimately they all could.
In the end, the humanity is the issue, not the gender.
It's really interesting that most of them are female.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying that in a catty way, btw. It's genuinely interesting; I wonder if the artist was trying to say something about the nature of those sins by portraying them that way.
DeleteCareful, such a discussion will get the blog banned ;-)
DeleteThe "classical" distinction and complementarity of the masculine and the feminine are now almost completely lost to our culture. As soon as we think of the relationship as a war, all is lost.
You will very rarely find the Virtues represented as male, though in the previous post Mars stands in for Fortitude, There is a reason for this, but I imagine you already understand it.
Justitia, of course, is a woman ,and always will be.
In this painting, the two Sins represented as male are Wrath and Gluttony. One might move Lust over as well, but it could go either way, as ultimately they all could.
In the end, the humanity is the issue, not the gender.
Humanity is the issue, but that doesn't mean gender is meaningless. Even now.
DeleteEspecially now.
And yes, of course, all hail Google, our benign overlord. :P