Politics and the order of love: an Augustinian ethic of democratic citizenship

Introduction: Augustine and modern liberalism -- Beyond public reason: love, sin, and Augustinian civic virtue -- From vice to virtue: the development of Augustinian liberalism -- A liberal ethic of care: feminist political theory and Christian social ethics -- Love as political vice: Hannah Arendt&...

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Main Author: Gregory, Eric (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] University of Chicago Press 2008
In:Year: 2008
Reviews:[Rezension von: Gregory, Eric, Politics and the Order of Love. An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship] (2013) (Alonso-Lasheras, Diego)
Politics and the order of love. An Augustinian ethic of democratic citizenship. By Eric Gregory. Pp. xv+417. Chicago–London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. £23.50 (45). 978 0 226 30751 0 (2010) (Uhalde, Kevin)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430 / Augustinianism / Political philosophy / Social ethics
B Liberalism / Democracy
B Politics / Virtue / Love
Further subjects:B Justice
B Augustine
B concept of state
B Arendt,Hannah
B Augustinianism
B Political Science Philosophy
B Ethics / Sittenlehre
B Political philosophy
B Transfer Theologie-Politik
B Literaturverzeichnis / Bibliographie
B Social System
B Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430)
B Plato (427 BC-347 BC)
B Ethics
B Gesellschaftsmodell
B Virtue
B political dimensions and consequences of theology
B Liberalism
B Love Religious aspects Christianity
B Theology
B Social ethics
B ethical argumentation
B Ethische Argumentation
B Augustinus
B Christianity
B Feminist theology
B Feminist Theology
B Sin / Justification
B Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo
B Theory of the state
B Stoa
B Love
B Augustinus, Aurelius
B Democracy
B Politics
B sin / justification
B Bibliography
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Summary:Introduction: Augustine and modern liberalism -- Beyond public reason: love, sin, and Augustinian civic virtue -- From vice to virtue: the development of Augustinian liberalism -- A liberal ethic of care: feminist political theory and Christian social ethics -- Love as political vice: Hannah Arendt's Augustine -- Love as political virtue: "stoics" and the problem of passion -- Love as political virtue: "Platonists" and the problem of God -- Conclusion: remembering Augustine: the exhausted politics of pessimism, skepticism, and nostalgia
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-405) and index
Rezension (Review): Augustinian Studies 42 (2011) 106-112 (R.P. Kennedy)
ISBN:0226307514

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