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Augustine and Ethics
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Augustine and Ethics examines the topic of ethics in the life and works of Augustine of Hippo. Adopting a global perspective on ethics as a field of philosophical and theological investigation, this volume includes reflections on virtue and vice, love and sin, and the political outcomes to which certain ethical stances tend to give rise. For Augustine himself, ethics was never merely theoretical. Ethical concerns are concrete; and ethical solutions should be practical. Accordingly, this volume gives Augustinian ethical arguments realization by connecting them to modern anxieties about ministry, health care, diet, and incarceration.
Divided into five sections, the essays collected here highlight the ongoing relevance of Augustine's work even in settings quite distinct from his own era and context. The first section lays down the groundwork for Augustinian ethics by examining the foundations of his thoughts on morality, self-formation, domination, and abuse. The next three sections are oriented around the themes of love, sin, and politics. The final section makes clear the consequences of Augustinian ethical thinking today, with a view to how pastors preach, how physicians heal, how prisoners suffer, and even how we should approach the ethics of eating.
Divided into five sections, the essays collected here highlight the ongoing relevance of Augustine's work even in settings quite distinct from his own era and context. The first section lays down the groundwork for Augustinian ethics by examining the foundations of his thoughts on morality, self-formation, domination, and abuse. The next three sections are oriented around the themes of love, sin, and politics. The final section makes clear the consequences of Augustinian ethical thinking today, with a view to how pastors preach, how physicians heal, how prisoners suffer, and even how we should approach the ethics of eating.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF AUGUSTINIAN ETHICS
- 1 Augustine’s Early Ethics: A Reconsideration
- 2 On Domination and Abuse: Thinking with Augustine
- 3 Beauty, Morality, and the Promise of Happiness
- 4 The Heart of the Father in Augustine’s Moral Thought
- 5 In Conspectu Dei: Journey in the Land of the Augustinian Conscience
- 6 Interiority, Community, and Self-Formation: Augustine and Monica in Ostia
- PART II: THE ETHICS OF LOVE
- 7 The Weight of Love: On the Limits of Autonomy in Augustine’s Confessions
- 8 “More Than Simply Bystanders”: Augustine, Brené Brown, and the Role of Empathy in Accompanying Others
- 9 Augustine on the Privacy of Conscience and Love of God and Neighbor
- 10 Love between Desire and Will: An Investigation of Augustine’s Concept of Love Assisted by Computational Methods
- PART III: THE ETHICS OF SIN
- 11 Original Sin and Justice in Augustine of Hippo’s Anti-Pelagian Writings (412–415 CE)
- 12 Pia impudentia: The Paradox of Ethics and Invisibility in Augustine
- 13 Augustine on Original Sin and the Origin of the Soul: Ethical Implications
- PART IV: THE POLITICS OF ETHICS
- 14 The Ethics of History: Augustine, Afro-Pessimism, and the 1619 Project
- 15 Augustine, Pluralism, and Diversity
- 16 The Image of God in the City of God
- PART V: APPLIED AUGUSTINIAN ETHICS
- 17 “The Truth Belongs to Christ”: Moral Idealism and Pastoral Reality in Augustine’s Rejection of Lies
- 18 An Inarticulacy of Meaning: The Significance of Augustinian Restlessness for Modern Medicine
- 19 Daring to Leave the Fallen World: Reflecting on Prison Abolition with Augustine
- 20 Eros, Eating, Attention: The Ethics of Incarnation in Augustine and Simone Weil
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors