Augustine Deformed: Love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781107428805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 434 str.

John M. Rist

Opis

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

Spis treści

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.