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On ethics, politics and psychology in the twenty-first century /

"The Reading Augustine series presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. John Rist takes the reader through Augustine's ethics, the arguments he made and how he arrived at them, and shows how this moral philosophy remains...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rist, John M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Colección:Reading Augustine
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What's a one-time bishop of Hippo got to do with the third millennium?
  • The foundations of Augustine's moral Empiricism: truth, love and sin
  • Scientific philosophy and first-person confession
  • Against autonomy: ought and can
  • The state: persecution, war, justice and regret
  • Against political panaceas
  • Utilitarians and Kantians: a parallel journey to triviality
  • Rights theory
  • The inevitable irrelevance of most contemporary theology
  • Austin's brag: conventional relativism, nihilism or the Catholic tradition
  • Transcript of a radio interview with Bishop Austin Redivivus: 1.4.2016.