Augustine's Way Into the Will

Augustine's Way Into the Will
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9780198269847
ISBN-13 : 0198269846
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Book Synopsis Augustine's Way Into the Will by : Simon Harrison

Download or read book Augustine's Way Into the Will written by Simon Harrison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine's dialogue De libero arbitrio (On Free Choice) is, with his Confessions and City of God, one of his most important and widely read works. It contains one of the earliest accounts of the concept of 'free will' in the history of philosophy. Composed during a key period in Augustine's early career, between his conversion to Christianity and his ordination as a bishop, it has often been viewed as a an incoherent mixture of his 'early' and 'late'thinking. Simon Harrison offers an original account of Augustine's theory of will, taking seriously both the philosophical arguments and literary form of the text. Relating De libero arbitrio to other key texts of Augustine's, in particular the City of God and the Confessions, Harrison shows that Augustine approaches the problemof free will as a problem of knowledge: how do I know that I am free?, and that Augustine uses the dialogue form to instantiate his 'way into the will'.


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