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Author : Herbert Andrew Deane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : 9780231085694
Critical essay on St. Augustine's analysis of the human condition, as reflected in his writings, by a scholar in political theory.
Author : Herbert Andrew Deane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1621380343
In praise of Augustine, Herbert A. Deane writes, "Genius he had in full measure ... he is the master of the phrase or the sentence that embodies a penetrating insight, a flash of lightning that illuminates the entire sky." To provide the student with a glimpse of that genius and a synthesis of Augustine's views on man and society, the author presents the most important passages from Augustine's entire body of work in which human nature, the social order, and the nature and function of the state are discussed. Marshaling this primary material, he masterfully weaves the connections between Augustine's social and political ideas and the general framework of his thought. A new foreword by Richard A. Munkelt makes a substantial contribution in critiquing Deane's assimilation of certain aspects of Augustine's thought to modern-day liberalism. The new foreword also contains extensive additional bibliography on the subject of Augustine's political thought. "Will undoubtedly remain the basic work on this subject."--Library Journal "Professor Deane significantly contributes both to historical understanding of Augustine's political thinking and to appreciation of its permanent relevance to the moral dilemmas of politics. No other study of Augustine's political thought gives nearly so much so well."--Political Science Quarterly "This book would be salutary, possibly purgatorial, reading for all politicians, psychologists, and educationalists."--Times Literary Supplement
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780851158198
The result is a full and wide-ranging narrative account of St. Augustine's thinking on the human condition, justice, the State, slavery, private property and war. This comprehensive sourcebook will be of value to students of St. Augustine at all levels."--Jacket.
Author : R.W. Dyson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847140975
St Augustine of Hippo was the earliest thinker to develop a distinctively Christian political and social philosophy. He does so mainly from the perspective of Platonism and Stoicism; but by introducing the biblical and Pauline conceptions of sin, grace and predestination he radically transforms the 'classical' understanding of the political. Humanity is not perfectible through participation in the life of a moral community; indeed, there are no moral communities on earth. Humankind is fallen; we are slaves of self-love and the destructive impulses generated by it. The State is no longer the matrix within which human beings can achieve ethical goods through co-operation with other rational and moral beings. Augustine's response to classical political assumptions and claims therefore transcends 'normal' radicalism. His project is not that of drawing attention to weaknesses and inadequacies in our political arrangements with a view to recommending their abolition or improvement. Nor does he adopt the classical practice of delineating an ideal State. To his mind, all States are imperfect: they are the mechanisms whereby an imperfect world is regulated. They can provide justice and peace of a kind, but even the best earthly versions of justice and peace are not true justice and peace. It is precisely the impossibility of true justice on earth that makes the State necessary. Robert Dyson's new book describes and analyses this 'transformation' in detail and shows Augustine's enormous influence upon the development of political thought down to the thirteenth century.
Author : Michael J. S. Bruno
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451482690
[Omslag] The thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. Political Augustinianism examines modern political readings of Augustine, providing an extensive account of the pivotal French, British, and American schools of interpretation. Bruno guides readers through these modern strands of interpretation, examines their historical, theological, and socio-political context, and discusses the hermeneutical underpinnings of the modern discussion of Augustine's social and political thought.
Author : Richard J. Dougherty
Publisher : Rochester Studies in Medieval
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781580469241
This important collection reveals that Augustine's political thought drew on and diverged from the classical tradition, contributing to the study of questions at the center of all Western political thought.
Author : Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268161149
Now with a new foreword by Patrick J. Deneen. Jean Bethke Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and presents an Augustine who created a complex moral map that offers space for loyalty, love, and care, as well as a chastened form of civic virtue. The result is a controversial book about one of the world's greatest and most complex thinkers whose thought continues to haunt all of Western political philosophy. What is our business "within this common mortal life?" Augustine asks and bids us to ask ourselves. What can Augustine possibly have to say about the conditions that characterize our contemporary society and appear to put democracy in crisis? Who is Augustine for us now and what do his words have to do with political theory? These are the underlying questions that animate Jean Bethke Elshtain's fascinating engagement with the thought and work of Augustine, the ancient thinker who gave no political theory per se and refused to offer up a positive utopia. In exploring the questions, Why Augustine, why now? Elshtain argues that Augustine's great works display a canny and scrupulous attunement to the here and now and the very real limits therein. She discusses other aspects of Augustine's thought as well, including his insistence that no human city can be modeled on the heavenly city, and further elaborates on Hannah Arendt's deep indebtedness to Augustine's understanding of evil. Elshtain also presents Augustine's arguments against the pridefulness of philosophy, thereby linking him to later currents in modern thought, including Wittgenstein and Freud.
Author : John Doody,Kevin L. Hughes,Kim Paffenroth
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739110098
The essays in this volume take stock of recent scholarly developments and revisit old assumptions about the significance of Augustine of Hippo for political thought. They do so from many different perspectives, examining the anthropological and theological underpinnings of Augustine's thought, his critique of politics, his development of his own political thought, and some of the later manifestations or uses of his thought in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and today. This new vision is at once more bracing, more hopeful, and more diverse than earlier readings could have allowed.
Author : Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine,Dino Bigongiari
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0895267047
Here in one concise volume is St. Augustine's brilliant analysis of where faith and politics meet - casting a penetrating light on Roman civilization, the coming Middle Ages, ecclesiastical politics, and some of the most powerful ideas in the Western tradition, including Augustine's famous "just war theory" and his timeless ideas of how men should live in society.
Author : James Henderson Burns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0521423880
This volume examines the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than a thousand years.
Author : Ernest L. Fortin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847682773
In Volume Two of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays, Fortin deals with the relationship between religion and civil society in a Christian context: that of an essentially nonpolitical but by no means entirely otherwordly religion, many of whose teachings were thought to be fundamentally at odds with the duties of citizenship. Sections focus upon Augustine and Aquinas, on Christianity and politics; natural law, natural rights, and social justice; and Leo Strauss and the revival of classical political philosophy. Fortin's treatment of these and related themes betrays a keen awareness of one of the significant intellectual events of our time: the recovery of political philosophy as a legitimate academic discipline.
Author : Augustine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052144697X
This collection brings together thirty-five letters and sermons of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo from 396-430 AD, that deal with political matters. The letters and sermons are both practical and principled and treat many essential themes in Augustine's thought, including the responsibilities of citizenship, the relationship between the church and secular authority, religious coercion, and war and peace. These texts complement Augustine's classic The City of God, and give students direct insight into the political and social world of late antiquity with which Augustine was immediately involved.
Author : Teresa Delgado,John Doody,Kim Paffenroth
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498509183
This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the major themes present in Augustine's extensive corpus of writings—from his Confessions to the City of God— with an eye to the following question: how can this early church father so foundational to Christian doctrine and teaching inform our twenty-first century context on how to create and sustain a more just and equitable society? In his own day, Augustine spoke to conditions of slavery, conflict and war, violence and poverty, among many others. These conditions, while reflecting the characteristics of our technological age, continue to obstruct our collective efforts to bring about the common good for the global human community. The contributors of this volume have taken great care to read Augustine through the lens of his own time and place; at the same time, they provide keen insights and reflections which advance the conversation of social justice in the present.
Author : Peter Robert Lamont Brown
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556351747
Peter Brown, author of the celebrated 'Augustine of Hippo', has here gathered together his seminal articles and papers on the rapidly changing world of Saint Augustine. The collection is wide-ranging, dealing with political theory, social history, church history, historiography, theology, history of religions, and social anthropology. Saint Augustine is, of course, the central figure; and in an important introduction Peter Brown explains how the preoccupations of these essays led him to write the prize-winning biography. Brown then goes on to explore the heart of Augustine's political theory, not only showing how it factors in Augustine's thought, but also pointing to what is different from and similar to twentieth-century political thought.
Author : David Vincent Meconi,Eleonore Stump
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107025332
This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.