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Overcoming our evil : human nature and spiritual exercises in Xunzi and Augustine

Title
Overcoming our evil : human nature and spiritual exercises in Xunzi and Augustine / Aaron Stalnaker.
Author
Stalnaker, Aaron.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006.

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xxi, 330 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Moral traditions series
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-319) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Source and citation formats -- Comparative ethics -- Contexts for interpretation -- Ugly impulses and a muddy heart -- Broken images of the divine -- Comparing human "natures" -- Artifice is the way -- Crucifying and resurrecting the mind -- Reformations: spiritual exercises in comparative perspective -- Understanding and neighborliness.
Call Number
JFE 06-13993
ISBN
  • 1589010949 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781589010949 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005027249
  • 9781589010949
OCLC
61731297
Author
Stalnaker, Aaron.
Title
Overcoming our evil : human nature and spiritual exercises in Xunzi and Augustine / Aaron Stalnaker.
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006.
Series
Moral traditions series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-319) and index.
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9781589010949
Research Call Number
JFE 06-13993
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