Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine, Hardcover

by Joseph Clair

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Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine, Hardcover by Clair, Joseph, ISBN 019875776X, ISBN-13 9780198757764, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine turns to the vast collection of moral advice found in Augustine's letters and sermons, mining these neglected and highly illuminating texts for examples of Augustine's application of his own moral concepts. It focuses on letters and sermons in which Augustine offers concrete advice on how to interact with the various goods relevant to social and political life. A special set of goods reappears throughout the letters and sermons, namely sexual intimacy and domestic life, power and public office, and wealth and private possessions. Together, these goods form the central topics of this book. Joseph Clair highlights that the most revealing cases are those in which an individual must choose between competing goods, and cases in which an individual's role and role--specific obligations inform their decisions. Such cases uncover the nimbleness of Augustine's moral reasoning in action--an artful blend of scriptural interpretation, virtue theory, and sensitivity to the circumstances of individual lives. He reveals that Augustine's understanding of the goods constitutive of social and political life is deeply indebted to the Stoic and Peripatetic doctrine of oikeiosis, or "social appropriation". The colorful, personal, and practical details found in these writin

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2016
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780198757764
• Condition: Fine

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