Augustine and Roman Virtue

Dr Brian Harding (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2011 | NIPPOD
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-4411-7527-4 (ISBN)

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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 as understood in a Latin context, that is, in dialogue with Latin writers such as Cicero, Livy, Sallust and Seneca. The book seeks to revise a common reading of Augustine's critique of ancient virtue by focusing on that dialogue, while showing that his attitude towards those authors is more sympathetic, and more critical, than one might expect. Harding argues that the criticisms rest on sympathy and that Augustine's critique of ancient virtue thinks through and develops certain trends noticeable in the major figures of Latin philosophy.

Brian Harding is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Woman's University, USA.

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 Philosophical Virtue; 5. Reconsidering the Sacralization Thesis; Bibliography; Index.

Reihe/Serie	Continuum Studies in Philosophy
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	344 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10	1-4411-7527-X / 144117527X
ISBN-13	978-1-4411-7527-4 / 9781441175274
Zustand	Neuware