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You Are Not Your Own Substack

Is Regret Good for Christians?

I think so, but I may regret writing this.

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O. Alan Noble
Dec 20, 2024
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I was in the middle of reading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics a few days ago to shore up the research for Re-Collecting when I stumbled across a passage that struck me as quite profound: “He is intemperate; for he is bound to have no regrets, and hence he is incurable, since someone without regrets is incurable” (Book VI…

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