Augustine deformed love, sin, and freedom in the western moral tradition

Augustine established a moral framework that dominated Western culture for more than a thousand years. His partly flawed presentation of some of its key concepts (love, will and freedom), however, prompted subsequent thinkers to attempt to repair this framework, and their efforts often aggravated th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rist, John Michael, 1936- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press 2016
Edición:1st paperback ed
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  • Introduction : A la recherche du temps perdu ; 'Will' and freedom, mind and love : some pre-Augustinian debates ; Awe-ful Augustine : sin, freedom and inscrutability ; Inspirational Augustine : love, desire and knowledge ; Anselm : will, omnipotence, responsibility ; 'Augustine' and 'Aristotle' : the problem of Thomas Aquinas ; Separating morality and salvation ; The rise and fall of lopsided Augustinianism ; Naturalism revised ; Love, will and the moral sense ; Radical revisionisms : Hume, Kant, Rousseau ; Atheist 'freedoms' : liberal, totalitarian, nihilist ; The age of deception : virtual religion, virtual morality ; Whither Lady Philosophy : muse, call girl, Valkyrie? ; Reformed Augustine, genetically modified Adam.