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We don't know what we don't know – we may ask for forgiveness for things in our hearts we know we did wrong. Other prominent authors who mentioned the maxim in their writings include Laurence Sterne, [87] Samuel Johnson, [88] and the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury.

But as Reason is not useless to the Con­servation of the Body in Nature, neither is it so to the Sanctification of the Soul in Religion; it supports Faith, and confirms Sense. To know oneself is disengage one's soul from the confusion and impurity of the external world, and to take refuge in pure reason.

As a consequence of the above-mentioned writings by Clement and Origen, Christian authors in the Middle Ages rarely alluded directly to the Delphic "know thyself", although the general theme of self-knowledge was discussed at length by authors such as Thomas Aquinas, [63] and is prominent in the literature of Christian mysticism. Has it not had a com­petent Knowledge, either of the Nature of Worldly Goods, as uncapable of yielding us Satisfaction, or of the Nature of our [Page 22] Heart, as uncapable of being satisfy'd with 'em? Then there exist many variants of the root word ilm, which include Allaamul, A'lam, Alim, and Aleem. h] That this was a popular interpretation is demonstrated by the fact that several prominent authors wrote against it. From the root ayn-lam-mim (ع ل م), which has the following classical Arabic connotations: to have knowledge, be cognizant, be certain, to be aware, thoroughly informed, to find out, gather information, to have intuitive knowledge, or to be firmly rooted in knowledge, to know the minutiae, to be wise and act according to knowledge.

And whereas we have no other means of attaining to the Know­ledge of most things, but either by Reason, Sense or Faith, He was willing that the Mo­rality of His Gospel should be known after all these ways: Faith makes us embrace it because Jesus Christ and the Apostles have taught and practis'd it; the inward Sense o [.Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. Calvin, for example, cautions his readers to avoid "perverse" applications of the maxim which would have a man "contemplate in himself nothing but what swells him with empty assurance and puffs him up with pride"; [75] while Thomas Hobbes, in the Leviathan (1651), says that the precept "was not meant, as it is now used, to countenance either the barbarous state of men in power towards their inferiors, or to encourage men of low degree to a saucy behaviour towards their betters". Commentators who focus on this latter point interpret Socrates' argument to mean that self-knowledge is accomplished through knowledge of God; [f] while others, concentrating on the image of eye looking into eye, infer that self-knowledge is accomplished only through knowledge of other human souls. In the Magna Moralia (traditionally attributed to Aristotle), it is pointed out that people frequently criticize others for faults of which they themselves are guilty, and this is presented as evidence for the claim that to know oneself is difficult.

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