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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808946903321

Autore

Harding Brian

Titolo

Augustine and Roman virtue / / Brian Harding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2008

ISBN

1-282-87499-3

9786612874994

1-4411-5505-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in philosophy

Disciplina

179/.9092

Soggetti

Kingdom of God

Apologetics

Virtue

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-202) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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