John M. Rist

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

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5013-0751-5
EAN: 9781501307515
Produktnummer: 29846398
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'350 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

John M. 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 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), What is Truth? From the Academy to the Vatican (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Plato's Moral Philosophy. The Discovery of the Presuppositions of Ethics (The Catholic University of America Press, 2012).