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Augustine and Roman Virtue (Paperback, NIPPOD)
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Augustine and Roman Virtue (Paperback, NIPPOD)
Series: Continuum Studies in Philosophy
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Augustine and Roman Virtue seeks to correct what the author sees as
a fundamental misapprehension in medieval thought, a
misapprehension that fuels further problems and misunderstandings
in the historiography of philosophy. This misapprehension is the
assumption that the development of certain themes associated with
medieval philosophy is due, primarily if not exclusively, to
extra-philosophical religious commitments rather than philosophical
argumentation, referred to here as the 'sacralization thesis'.
Brian Harding explores this problem through a detailed reading of
Augustine's City of God as understood in a Latin context, that is,
in dialogue with Latin writers such as Cicero, Livy, Sallust and
Seneca. The book seeks to revise a common reading of Augustine's
critique of ancient virtue by focusing on that dialogue, while
showing that his attitude towards those authors is more
sympathetic, and more critical, than one might expect. Harding
argues that the criticisms rest on sympathy and that Augustine's
critique of ancient virtue thinks through and develops certain
trends noticeable in the major figures of Latin philosophy.
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