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Le dilemme de l'être et du néant chez Saint Augustin
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ISBN: 9060322347 9786613328991 1283328992 9027281645 9789060322345 9789027281647 Year: 1984 Volume: 4 Publisher: Amsterdam B.R. Grüner


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Augustine deformed : love, sin and freedom in the Western moral tradition.
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ISBN: 9781107428805 9781107075795 1107075793 1107428807 9781139871990 1316093905 1316094200 1316095614 1316095193 131609491X 1139871994 1316095339 1316095479 1316095754 1322177279 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Cambridge university press

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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 efforts often aggravated the very problems they intended to solve. Over time, dissatisfaction with an imperfect Augustinian theology gave way to increasingly secular and eventually impersonal moral systems. This volume traces the distortion of Augustine's thought from the twelfth century to the present and examines its consequent reconstructions. John M. Rist argues that modern philosophies should be recognized as offering no compelling answers to questions about the human condition and as leading inevitably to conventionalism or nihilism. In order to avoid this end, he proposes a return to an updated Augustinian Christianity. Essential reading for anyone interested in Augustine and his influence, Augustine Deformed revitalizes his original conception of love, will and freedom.

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