The Christian Philosophy of Saint Augustine
Author: Etienne Gilson
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish equivalent of Introduction a l'etude de saint Augustin, 2 ed., Paris, Vrin 1943.
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Augustine's Philosophy of Mind
Author: Gerard J. P. O'Daly
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780520060692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAugustine and Philosophy
Author: Phillip Cary
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-07-10
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0739145401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAugustine of Hippo was a philosopher as well as theologian, bishop and saint. He aimed to practice philosophy not simply as an academic discipline but as a love for divine wisdom pervading everything in his life and work. To inquire into Augustine and philosophy is thus to get to the heart of his concerns as a Christian writer and uncover some of the reasons for his vast influence on Western thought. This volume, containing essays by leading Augustine scholars, includes a variety of inquiries into Augustine's philosophy in theory and practice, as well as his relation to philosophers before and after him. It opens up a variety of perspectives into the heart of Augustine's thought. He frequently reminds his readers, 'philosophy' means love of wisdom, and in that sense he expects that every worthy impulse in human life will have something philosophical about it, something directed toward the attainment of wisdom. In Augustine's own writing we find this expectation put into practice in a stunning variety of ways, as keys themes of Western philosophy and intricate forms of philosophical argument turn up everywhere. The collection of essays in this book examines just a few aspects of the relation of Augustine and philosophy, both in Augustine's own practice as a philosopher and in his interaction with others. The result is not one picture of the relation of Augustine and philosophy but many, as the authors of these essays ask many different questions about Augustine and his influence, and bring a large diversity of interests and expertise to their task. Thus the collection shows that Augustine's philosophy remains an influence and a provocation in a wide variety of settings today.
Augustine's Confessions
Author: William E. Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0199577552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEight new essays examine key philosophical issues raised by Augustine in his 'Confessions' - a masterpiece of world literature. They explore a range of topics including what constitutes the happy or blessed life, the role of philosophical perplexity in the search for truth, and the problems that arise in the attempt to understand minds.
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine
Author: David Vincent Meconi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1107025338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.
Augustine and Spinoza
Author: Milad Doueihi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 0674050630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElection and grace are two key concepts that not only have shaped the relations between Judaism and Christianity, but also have formed a cornerstone of the Western philosophical discourse on the evolution and progress of humanity. Though Augustine and Spinoza can be shown to share a methodological approach to these concepts, their conclusions remain radically different. For the Church Father Augustine, grace defines human nature by the potential availability of divine intervention, thus setting the stage for the institutional and political legitimacy of the Church, the Christian state, and its justice. For Spinoza, on the other hand, election represents a unique but local form of divine intervention, marked by geography and historical context. Milad Doueihi maps out the consequences of such an encounter between these two thinkers in terms of their philosophical heritage and its continued relevance for contemporary discussions of religious diversity and autonomy. Augustine asserts a theological foundation for the political, whereas Spinoza radically separates philosophy, and thus authority, from theology in order to solicit a political democracy. In this sharply argued and deeply learned book, Milad Doueihi shows us how interconnections between the two thinkers have come to shape Western philosophy.
In the Self's Place
Author: Jean-Luc Marion
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012-10-24
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 0804785627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Self's Place is an original phenomenological reading of Augustine that considers his engagement with notions of identity in Confessions. Using the Augustinian experience of confessio, Jean-Luc Marion develops a model of selfhood that examines this experience in light of the whole of the Augustinian corpus. Towards this end, Marion engages with noteworthy modern and postmodern analyses of Augustine's most "experiential" work, including the critical commentaries of Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Marion ultimately concludes that Augustine has preceded postmodernity in exploring an excess of the self over and beyond itself, and in using this alterity of the self to itself, as a driving force for creative relations with God, the world, and others. This reading establishes striking connections between accounts of selfhood across the fields of contemporary philosophy, literary studies, and Augustine's early Christianity.
Augustine and Postmodernism
Author: John D. Caputo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-03-10
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0253217318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScanlon, and Mark Vessey.Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion--Merold Westphal, general editor
St. Augustine of Hippo
Author: R.W. Dyson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-09-21
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1847140971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSt 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.
