Title: Parting knowledge : essays after Augustine /
Authors: Wetzel, James,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Augustine,; Augustine, Influence.
Contents: Introduction: philosophy's birthmark -- Groundwork. Agony in the garden: Augustine's myth of will -- Crisis mentalities: Augustine after Descartes -- The alleged importance of free choice: Augustine on liberum arbitrium -- Trappings of woe: Augustine's confession of grief -- Prodigal heart: Augustine's theology of the emotions -- Life in unlikeness: the materiality of Augustine's conversion -- A short history of philosophy: Augustine's platonism -- Cultivation. Some thoughts on the anachronism of forgiveness -- A meditation on hell: lessions from Dante -- Myth and moral philosophy -- The original sin: sex and Christian ethics ... and a dialogical postscript -- From aAphrodite to God the father: A question of beauty -- Wittgenstein's Augustine: the inauguration of the later philosophy -- What the Saints know: quasi-epistemological reflections