John M. Rist

Augustine Deformed

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Produktbeschreibung

Rist explores how and why Augustine's moral framework became distorted with time and proposes a return to a revitalized version of his thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 853g
• ISBN-13: 9781107075795
• ISBN-10: 1107075793
• Artikelnr.: 41129110

Autorenporträt

John M. Rist is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Toronto and was Father Kurt Pritzl, OP, Chair in Philosophy at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, from 2012 to 2014. He is the author of fourteen books, including What Is Truth?: From the Academy to the Vatican (Cambridge, 2008) and Plato's Moral Realism: The Discovery of the Presuppositions of Ethics (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Will' and freedom, mind and love: some pre-Augustinian debates
2. Awe-ful Augustine: sin, freedom and inscrutability
3. Inspirational Augustine: love, desire and knowledge
4. Anselm: will, omnipotence and responsibility
5. Augustine and Aristotle: the problem of Thomas Aquinas
6. Separating morality and salvation
7. The rise and fall of lopsided Augustinianism
8. Naturalism revised
9. Love, will and the moral sense
10. Radical revisionists: Hume, Kant and Rousseau
11. Atheist 'freedoms': liberal, totalitarian and nihilist
12. The age of deception: virtual religion, virtual morality
13. Whither Lady Philosophy: muse, call girl or Valkyrie?
14. Reformed Augustine, genetically modified Adam.