Mary M. Keys

Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine's City of God (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first to interpret and reflect on Augustine's seminal argument concerning humility and pride, especially in politics and philosophy, in The City of God. Mary Keys shows how contemporary readers have much to gain from engaging Augustine's lengthy argument on behalf of virtuous humility. She also demonstrates how a deeper understanding of the classical and Christian philosophical-rhetorical modes of discourse in The City of God enables readers to appreciate and evaluate Augustine's nuanced case for humility in politics, philosophy, and religion. Comprised of a series of interpretive essays and commentaries following Augustine's own order of segments and themes in The City of God, Keys' volume unpacks the author's complex text and elucidates its challenge, meaning, and importance for contemporary readers. It also illuminates a central, yet easily underestimated theme with perennial relevance in a classic work of political thought and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009201063
• Artikelnr.: 66177435

Autorenporträt

Mary M. Keys is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. The author of Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good, she has contributed to numerous journals and books, including The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'City of God'.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Humility and pride in The City of God; 2. The City of God I
V: Political pride against natural right; 3. The City of God VI
VII: Nature, convention, and Rome's civil religion; 4. The City of God VIII
X: Natural theology, philosophic pride, and divine humility; 5. The City of God XI
XII: Creation and the metaphysics of pride and humility; 6. The City of God XIII
XIV: Being
toward
life, being
toward
death; 7. The City of God XV
XVIII: Pride and humility in history; 8. The City of God XIX
XXII: Humility, pride, peace, and participation; Conclusion.