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Augustine and Roman virtue / Brian Harding.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harding, Brian.
- Series:
- Continuum studies in philosophy.
- Continuum studies in philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kingdom of God.
- Apologetics.
- Virtue.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. De civitate Dei.
- Augustine.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Augustine and Roman Virtue seeks to correct what the author sees as a fundamental misapprehension in medieval thought, a misapprehension that fuels further problems and misunderstandings in the historiography of philosophy. This misapprehension is the assumption that the development of certain themes associated with medieval philosophy is due, primarily if not exclusively, to extra-philosophical religious commitments rather than philosophical argumentation, referred to here as the 'sacralization thesis'. Brian Harding explores this problem through a detailed reading of Augustine's City of God
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Texts and Translations; Introduction; 1. Knowledge of Things, Both Human and Divine; 2. Roman Virtue and the Lust for Domination; 3. Augustine's Critique of Roman Civic Virtue; 4. Augustine's Critique of Roman Philosophical Virtue; 5. Reconsidering the Sacralization Thesis; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-202) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612874994
- 9781282874992
- 1282874993
- 9781441155054
- 1441155058
- OCLC:
- 680017858
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