Augustine's City of God: a critical guide
Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich exami...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2012.
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| En: | Año: 2012 |
| Colección / Revista: | Cambridge critical guides
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| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Augustinus, Aurelius, Santo 354-430, De civitate dei
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| Otras palabras clave: | B
Augustine
B Kingdom of God B Augustine ; Saint, Bishop of Hippo ; De civitate Dei B Apologetics B Comentario B Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo De civitate Dei |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | No electrónico
Erscheint auch als: 9780521199940 |
| Sumario: | Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich examination of those themes, using the central, contested distinction between a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage and an earthly city bound for perdition to elaborate aspects of Augustine's political and moral vision. Topics discussed include Augustine's notion of the secular, his critique of pagan virtue, his departure from classical eudaimonism, his mythology of sin, his dystopian politics, his surprising attention to female bodies, his moral psychology, his valorisation of love, his critique of empire and his conception of a Christian philosophy. Together the essays advance our understanding of Augustine's most influential work and provide a rich overview of Augustinian political theology and its philosophical implications. |
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| Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| Descripción Física: | 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 261 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 978-1-139-01414-4 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139014144 |
