Politics and the Order of Love. An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. - GREGORY, E.,
An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship
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Augustine - for all of his influence on Western culture and politics - was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition. The result is a book that expands Augustinian imaginations for liberalism and liberal imaginations for Augustinianism. Gregory examines a broad range of Augustine?s texts and their reception in different disciplines and identifies two classical themes which have analogues in secular political theory: love - and related notions of care, solidarity, and sympathy - and sin - as well as related notions of cruelty, evil, and narrow self-interest. From an Augustinian point of view, Gregory argues, love and sin constrain each other in ways that yield a distinctive vision of the limits and possibilities of politics. In providing a constructive argument for Christian participation in liberal democratic societ...
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2008Uitgever: University of Chicago Press384 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0226307514ISBN-13: 9780226307510Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Chicago/London, 2008. XV,417p. Cloth with dust wrappers. Nice copy. Appears unread. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: GREGORY, E.,] [Uitgever: University of Chicago Press] [Jaar: 2008] [Titel: Politics and the Order of Love. An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship.]
