Politics and the order of love : an Augustinian ethic of democratic citizenship /
Gregory, Eric
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-405) and index.
Introduction: Augustine and modern liberalism -- Beyond public reason: love, sin, and Augustinian civic virtue -- From vice to virtue: the development of Augustinian liberalism -- A liberal ethic of care: feminist political theory and Christian social ethics -- Love as political vice: Hannah Arendt's Augustine -- Love as political virtue: "stoics" and the problem of passion -- Love as political virtue: "Platonists" and the problem of God -- Conclusion: remembering Augustine: the exhausted politics of pessimism, skepticism, and nostalgia.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Love
Political science
Liberalism.