Book Description
Collection containing thirty-five letters and sermons of St Augustine on politics, addressing essential themes in Augustine's thought.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521446976
Collection containing thirty-five letters and sermons of St Augustine on politics, addressing essential themes in Augustine's thought.
Author : Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780895267047
Here in one concise volume is St. Augustine's brilliant analysis of where faith and politics meet - casting a penetrating light on Roman civilization, the coming Middle Ages, ecclesiastical politics, and some of the most powerful ideas in the Western tradition, including Augustine's famous "just war theory" and his timeless ideas of how men should live in society.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0851158196
The result is a full and wide-ranging narrative account of St. Augustine's thinking on the human condition, justice, the State, slavery, private property and war. This comprehensive sourcebook will be of value to students of St. Augustine at all levels."--Jacket.
Author : Augustine
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1603848843
The best available introduction to the political thought of Augustine, if not to Christian political thought in general. Included are generous selections from City of God, as well as from many lesser-known writings of Augustine.
Author : Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Political science
ISBN :
Author : Dino Bigongiari
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258140168
Author : R.W. Dyson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1847140971
St Augustine of Hippo was the earliest thinker to develop a distinctively Christian political and social philosophy. He does so mainly from the perspective of Platonism and Stoicism; but by introducing the biblical and Pauline conceptions of sin, grace and predestination he radically transforms the 'classical' understanding of the political. Humanity is not perfectible through participation in the life of a moral community; indeed, there are no moral communities on earth. Humankind is fallen; we are slaves of self-love and the destructive impulses generated by it. The State is no longer the matrix within which human beings can achieve ethical goods through co-operation with other rational and moral beings. Augustine's response to classical political assumptions and claims therefore transcends 'normal' radicalism. His project is not that of drawing attention to weaknesses and inadequacies in our political arrangements with a view to recommending their abolition or improvement. Nor does he adopt the classical practice of delineating an ideal State. To his mind, all States are imperfect: they are the mechanisms whereby an imperfect world is regulated. They can provide justice and peace of a kind, but even the best earthly versions of justice and peace are not true justice and peace. It is precisely the impossibility of true justice on earth that makes the State necessary. Robert Dyson's new book describes and analyses this 'transformation' in detail and shows Augustine's enormous influence upon the development of political thought down to the thirteenth century.
Author : Richard J. Dougherty
Publisher : Rochester Studies in Medieval
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1580469248
This important collection reveals that Augustine's political thought drew on and diverged from the classical tradition, contributing to the study of questions at the center of all Western political thought.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Political science
ISBN :
Author : John Doody
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739110096
The essays in this volume take stock of recent scholarly developments and revisit old assumptions about the significance of Augustine of Hippo for political thought. They do so from many different perspectives, examining the anthropological and theological underpinnings of Augustine's thought, his critique of politics, his development of his own political thought, and some of the later manifestations or uses of his thought in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and today. This new vision is at once more bracing, more hopeful, and more diverse than earlier readings could have allowed.