Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine: A Stoic–Platonic Synthesis. By Sarah Catherine Byers
Byers starts her study of Augustine’s account of moral motivation by looking at a notoriously disputed section of book 8 of the Confessions (§§26–7) where Augustine speaks of the ‘suggestions’ of his ‘old loves’ about all the pleasures of licentiousness he was thinking of leaving behind. She explain...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 737-739 |
| Review of: | Perception, sensibility, and moral motivation in Augustine (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2013) (Rist, John)
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| Summary: | Byers starts her study of Augustine’s account of moral motivation by looking at a notoriously disputed section of book 8 of the Confessions (§§26–7) where Augustine speaks of the ‘suggestions’ of his ‘old loves’ about all the pleasures of licentiousness he was thinking of leaving behind. She explains the passage in terms of Augustine’s use of Stoic theories of how after receiving physical impressions (phantasiai), which we ‘read’ propositionally, we hesitate and finally decide what moral ‘suggestion’ or implication we shall accept or reject. The classic Stoic example is of the soldier on the walls of Rome who shudders when seeing Hannibal’s army approaching and is propositioned by the thought that death is to be feared. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt152 |