Perception, sensibility, and moral motivation in Augustine : a Stoic-Platonic synthesis / Sarah Catherine Byers.

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Byers, Sarah Catherine, 1972-

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TextPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781139842525
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Perception, sensibility, and moral motivation in Augustine.DDC classification:

189.2

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BR65.A9 B94 2013

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PHI002000

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index.

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.