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Full Idea
When people fall into wickedness they lose their human nature.
Gist of Idea
When people fall into wickedness they lose their human nature
Source
Boethius (The Consolations of Philosophy [c.520], IV.III)
Book Ref
Boethius: 'The Consolations of Philosophy', ed/tr. Watts,V.E. [Penguin 1969], p.125
A Reaction
This is a view I find quite sympathetic, but which is a million miles from the modern view. Today's paper showed a picture of a famous criminal holding a machine gun and a baby. We seem to delight in the idea that human nature is partly wicked.