Addiction and the Captive Will

A Colloquy between Neuroscience and Augustine of Hippo

AvCynthia Geppert,Brian Brock

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Twenty-first century neuroscience has discovered that in some severe cases, addiction may so constrain human freedom that the will is only able to choose to use substances of abuse. At this advanced stage, substance use has become the primary driver of salience, co-optingand subsuming other moral priorities and human rewards. Scholars have investigated Aristotle’s concept of akrasia as an ancient mirror of this understanding and there have been some preliminary discussions of Augustine’s concept of the divided will as it bears on addiction. No detailed and comprehensive exploration of the work of Augustine has yet been undertaken as it relates to three contemporary models of addiction: the choice, learning, and brain disease models. Augustine’s psychological awareness, his mastery of ancient theological and philosophical thinking, and his enormous and enduring influence on both Catholic and Protestant theology, make him an ideal subject for such research. This incisive book argues that Augustine’s doctrine of the captive will offers a theological parallel of each of these contemporary models of addiction.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-27
Mått:155 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780567713520

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Medicinsk etik och läkaretik inom Medicin
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

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Cynthia Geppert is Professor of Psychiatry & Internal Medicine and Director of Ethics Education at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, USA. She is also Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, USA.

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Seeking to imagine a conversation between neuroscience and Augustine is thus ambitious. In doing so, this book engages with some fundamental human concerns.

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Chapter 1Eternal QuestionsPart I: The Historical and Philosophical Review of the Models of AddictionChapter 2Models and Methods in AddictionologyChapter 3The Moral Model of AddictionChapter 4The Disease Model of AddictionChapter 5The Brain Disease Model of AddictionChapter 6The Backlash Against the Brain Disease Model and the Rise of Alternative ModelsPart II: Phenomenology of the ConfessionsChapter 7Books I through IV: Augustine the Lost SeekerChapter 8Books V through VII: Augustine's Intellectual ConversionChapter 9The Conversion of the Will: Books VIII through IXChapter 10The Conversions of Memory: Books X through XIIIPart III: Theological AnalysisChapter 11The Captivity of the WillChapter 12Augustine, Sin, and the Models of AddictionChapter 13Grace and the Models of AddictionChapter 14The Colloguium between Augustine and AddictionBibliographyIndex