So Ancient and So New: St. Augustine's Confessions and Its Influence
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1587318199 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
For Augustine, who shares many of the same ends, the pursuit of the good is not the rectification of philosophical reason, but (as it was for Dante) an intensely personal and consuming love: the encounter with the living God. Unlike Plato, who depicts the process of reasoning toward the truth, Augustine finds the truth revealed in another, immeasurably greater book that cannot be read in its true sense without the help of its author. The most direct engagement with Augustine is obviously Rousseau’s. In its sophistications and anxieties, the late antiquity Augustine inhabited feels a great deal like the late modernity we inhabit now. Eliot in the Four Quartets (Glenn Arbery). Augustine, like Plato’s Republic