Augustine, Philosopher of Freedom
A Study in Comparative Philosophy
Published on 1. December 2018
235 pages
978-1-78912-447-7 (ISBN)
Description
The riches of our Christian tradition need to be mined anew for each generation. Accordingly, Mother Clark's book is destined to make the treasures of Augustine's thought accessible to the student and to the average reader. Contributing to a clearer, more complete understanding of Augustine, Mother Clark considers her subject in the light of a single, basic principal: the idea of freedom. Augustine himself is allowed in this book to speak out on a topic so appropriate to the world today. Freedom, exploited by Existentialists, denied by Totalitarians, was appreciated properly by St. Augustine. Here is a book calculated to put in bold relief the timelessness of Augustine's genius and to explain to modern man the truths he needs most: the meaning of God and the meaning of man.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE-THE NOTION OF FREEDOM IN THE PAGAN PHILOSOPHERS
- CHAPTER I-FREE WILL IN GREEK PHILOSOPHY
- CHAPTER II-THE TREATISE ON FREE WILL OF PLOTINUS
- CHAPTER III-RESUME OF THE PAGAN POSITION ON FREE WILL
- PART TWO-THE NOTION OF FREEDOM IN AUGUSTINE
- CHAPTER IV-FREE WILL IN THE DE LIBERO ARBITRIO OF ST. AUGUSTINE
- CHAPTER V-FREEDOM IN THE EARLY DIALOGUES OF ST. AUGUSTINE
- CHAPTER VI-FREE WILL AND FREEDOM IN THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE
- CHAPTER VII-GENESIS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN DOCTRINE OF FREEDOM
- CHAPTER VIII-THEOLOGICAL FREEDOM AND ITS PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS
- CHAPTER IX-PLOTINUS AND AUGUSTINE
- PART THREE-THE NOTION OF FREEDOM AFTER AUGUSTINE
- CHAPTER X-ANSELMIAN AND AUGUSTINIAN DOCTRINES OF FREEDOM COMPARED
- CHAPTER XI-DEVELOPMENT OF THE AUGUSTINIAN NOTION OF FREEDOM BY ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
- CHAPTER XII-TWENTIETH CENTURY VIEWS ON FREEDOM
- CHAPTER XIII-CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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