| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index. |
| Contents |
Perception and the language of the mind -- Motivation -- Emotions -- Preliminary passions -- Progress in joy: preliminaries to good emotions -- Cognitive therapies -- Inspiration -- Appendix I. Text of Confessions 8.11.26-27 in English and Latin -- Appendix II. "Will" (voluntas) as impulse toward action (cf. Stoic hormē) in Augustine. |
| Summary |
This book argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions and moral progress. Using his sermons to elucidate his treatises, Sarah Catherine Byers demonstrates how Augustine enriched Stoic cognitivism with Platonism to develop a fuller and coherent theory of action. That theory underlies his account of moral development, including his account of the mind's reception of grace. By analyzing Augustine's engagement with Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Origen and Philo of Alexandria, Byers sheds new light on a major thinker of the early Christian world whose work is of critical importance for understanding key and recurring themes in Western philosophy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. |
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Stoics.
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Stoics. |
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Moral development.
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Moral development. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Byers, Sarah Catherine, 1972- Perception, sensibility, and moral motivation in Augustine. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107017948 (DLC) 2012007847 (OCoLC)779607123 |
| ISBN |
9781139842525 (electronic book) |
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1139842528 (electronic book) |
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9781139840149 (electronic book) |
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1139840142 (electronic book) |
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9781139086110 (electronic book) |
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1139086111 (electronic book) |
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1283836238 |
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9781283836234 |
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9781139844888 (e-book) |
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1139844881 (e-book) |
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9781107017948 |
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1107017947 |
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