Grace, politics and desire: essays on Augustine
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Rist explores how and why Augustine''s moral framework became distorted with time and proposes a return to a revitalized version of his thought.
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 effort…
From Robert Grosseteste to Jean-François Lyotard, Augustine’ ; s suggestion that time is a “ ; dilation of the soul” ; (distentio animi) has been taken up as a seminal and controversial time-concept, yet in this book, David van Dusen argues that this ‘ ; dilation…
Augustine's "Confessions": a biography
by Wills, Garry
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"This book argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions, and moral progress. Using his sermons to elucidate his treatises, Sarah Catherine Byers demonstrates how Augustine enriched Stoic c…
