Read Discerning the Good in the Letters & Sermons of Augustine

Discerning the Good in the Letters & Sermons of Augustine

Joseph Clair

4.9/5 (10082 ratings)

Description:Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine turns to the vast collection of moral advice found in Augustine's letters and sermons, mining these neglected and highly illuminating texts for examples of Augustine's application of his own moral concepts. It focuses on letters and sermons in which Augustine offers concrete advice on how to interact with the various goods relevant to social and political life. A special set of goods reappearsthroughout the letters and sermons, namely sexual intimacy and domestic life, power and public office, and wealth and private possessions. Together, these goods form the central topics of this book.Joseph Clair highlights that the most revealing cases are those in which an individual must choose between competing goods, and cases in which an individual's role and role--specific obligations inform their decisions. Such cases uncover the nimbleness of Augustine's moral reasoning in action--an artful blend of scriptural interpretation, virtue theory, and sensitivity to the circumstances of individual lives. He reveals that Augustine's understanding of the goods constitutive of social andpolitical life is deeply indebted to the Stoic and Peripatetic doctrine of oikeiōsis, or "social appropriation". The colorful, personal, and practical details found in these writings provide a window onto Augustine's moral reasoning not available in his more theoretical treatments of the good, andthe concrete cases often illustrate the human significance of properly discerning the good. Beyond providing one of the first analyses of these ethical writings, this work contributes a new sense of Augustine's ethics--both in terms of the range of questions he addresses and the manner in which he treats them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Discerning the Good in the Letters & Sermons of Augustine. To get started finding Discerning the Good in the Letters & Sermons of Augustine, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0191075221

Description: Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine turns to the vast collection of moral advice found in Augustine's letters and sermons, mining these neglected and highly illuminating texts for examples of Augustine's application of his own moral concepts. It focuses on letters and sermons in which Augustine offers concrete advice on how to interact with the various goods relevant to social and political life. A special set of goods reappearsthroughout the letters and sermons, namely sexual intimacy and domestic life, power and public office, and wealth and private possessions. Together, these goods form the central topics of this book.Joseph Clair highlights that the most revealing cases are those in which an individual must choose between competing goods, and cases in which an individual's role and role--specific obligations inform their decisions. Such cases uncover the nimbleness of Augustine's moral reasoning in action--an artful blend of scriptural interpretation, virtue theory, and sensitivity to the circumstances of individual lives. He reveals that Augustine's understanding of the goods constitutive of social andpolitical life is deeply indebted to the Stoic and Peripatetic doctrine of oikeiōsis, or "social appropriation". The colorful, personal, and practical details found in these writings provide a window onto Augustine's moral reasoning not available in his more theoretical treatments of the good, andthe concrete cases often illustrate the human significance of properly discerning the good. Beyond providing one of the first analyses of these ethical writings, this work contributes a new sense of Augustine's ethics--both in terms of the range of questions he addresses and the manner in which he treats them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Discerning the Good in the Letters & Sermons of Augustine. To get started finding Discerning the Good in the Letters & Sermons of Augustine, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Discerning the Good in the Letters & Sermons of Augustine

Discerning the Good in the Letters & Sermons of Augustine

More Books

The Sad Son

The Sad Son

The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox (Josephine Fox, #1)

The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox (Josephine Fox, #1)

The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education

The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education

On Education, Formation, Citizenship and the Lost Purpose of Learning (Reading Augustine)

On Education, Formation, Citizenship and the Lost Purpose of Learning (Reading Augustine)

Docteur de L'Universite de Chicago: Herbert Simon, Gary Becker, Robert E. Lucas, Joseph Banks Rhine, Joseph Juran, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Paul Romer, Tsung-DAO Lee, George Stigler, Clarence Edwin Ayres, Luis Walter Alvarez

Docteur de L'Universite de Chicago: Herbert Simon, Gary Becker, Robert E. Lucas, Joseph Banks Rhine, Joseph Juran, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Paul Romer, Tsung-DAO Lee, George Stigler, Clarence Edwin Ayres, Luis Walter Alvarez

Membre de L'Academie Du Morvan: Francois Mitterrand, Jacques Thevenet, Claude Regnier, Denis Grivot, Jean Clair, Joseph Bruley, Tristan Maya

Membre de L'Academie Du Morvan: Francois Mitterrand, Jacques Thevenet, Claude Regnier, Denis Grivot, Jean Clair, Joseph Bruley, Tristan Maya

Facing Forward - Poems of Courage

Facing Forward - Poems of Courage

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous

Treachery at Hursley Park House (Josephine Fox, #2)

Treachery at Hursley Park House (Josephine Fox, #2)