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On ethics, politics and psychology in the twenty-first century
- Title
- On ethics, politics and psychology in the twenty-first century / John Rist ; with an interview with Bishop Austin Redivivus orchestrated by Anna Rist.
- Author
- Rist, John M.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- ix, 177 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Reading Augustine
- Uniform Title
- Reading Augustine.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: What's a one-time Bishop of Hippo got to do with the third millennium? -- The foundations of Augustine's moral empiricism: truth, love and sin -- 'Scientific' philosophy and first-person confession -- Against autonomy: 'ought' and 'can' -- The state: persecution, war, justice -- and regret -- Against political panaceas -- Utilitarians and Kantians: a parallel journey to triviality? -- Rights-theory -- The inevitable irrelevance of most contemporary theology -- Austin's 'brag': conventional relativism, nihilism or the Catholic tradition? -- Transcript of a radio interview with Bishop Austin Redivivus: 1 April 2016.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-677
- ISBN
- 9781501307492
- 1501307495
- 9781501307485
- 1501307487
- LCCN
- 2017015998
- OCLC
- 961152943
- Author
- Rist, John M., author.
- Title
- On ethics, politics and psychology in the twenty-first century / John Rist ; with an interview with Bishop Austin Redivivus orchestrated by Anna Rist.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Reading AugustineReading Augustine.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-677