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John M. Rist - On Ethics, Politics and Psychology in the Twenty-First Century, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2017

On Ethics, Politics and Psychology in the Twenty-First Century

Av John M. Rist

Del i serien Reading Augustine

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The Reading Augustine series presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. John Rist takes the reader through Augustine's ethics, the arguments he made and how he arrived at them, and shows how this moral philosophy remains vital for us today. Rist identifies Augustine's challenge to all ideas of moral autonomy, concentrating especially on his understanding of humility as an honest appraisal of our moral state. He looks at thinkers who accept parts of Augustine's evaluation of the human condition but lapse into bleakness and pessimism since for them God has disappeared. In the concluding parts of the book, Rist suggests how a developed version of Augustine's original vision can be applied to the complexities of modern life while also laying out, on the other hand, what our moral universe would look like without Augustine's contribution to it.
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John Rist is Professor Emeritus of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Neoplatonism, as well as Ethics, Patristics and Augustine. He is the author of fifteen books, including Real Ethics: Reconsidering the Foundations of Morality (2001), What is Truth? From the Academy to the Vatican (2008) and Plato's Moral Philosophy. The Discovery of the Presuppositions of Ethics (2012).

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An extremely enjoyable read, another product of the author's brilliance ... After devouring this book cover to cover, I had a much better idea of Augustine's implicit political inclinations, explained through his more well-known theological doctrines, and not in the least, through his refreshing, liberating complaints of today's modern Western world.

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