Perception, sensibility, and moral motivation in Augustine : a Stoic-Platonic synthesis / Sarah Catherine Byers.

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Byers, Sarah Catherine, 1972- [Author]

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computer

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online resource

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9781139842525
9781139840149
9781139086110
9781283836234
9781139853965
9781107235328
9781139845830
9781139841337

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BR65 .P473 2013

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Contents:

Motivation -- Emotions -- Preliminary passions -- Progress in joy: preliminaries to good emotions -- Cognitive therapies -- Inspiration -- Appendix I. Text of Confessions 8.11.26-27 in English and Latin -- Appendix II. "Will" (voluntas) as impulse toward action (compare Stoic hormē) in Augustine.

Subject: This book argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions and moral progress. Using his sermons to elucidate his treatises, Sarah Catherine Byers demonstrates how Augustine enriched Stoic cognitivism with Platonism to develop a fuller and coherent theory of action. That theory underlies his account of moral development, including his account of the mind's reception of grace. By analyzing Augustine's engagement with Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Origen and Philo of Alexandria, Byers sheds new light on a major thinker of the early Christian world whose work is of critical importance for understanding key and recurring themes in Western philosophy.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Perception and the language of the mind -- Motivation -- Emotions -- Preliminary passions -- Progress in joy: preliminaries to good emotions -- Cognitive therapies -- Inspiration -- Appendix I. Text of Confessions 8.11.26-27 in English and Latin -- Appendix II. "Will" (voluntas) as impulse toward action (compare Stoic hormē) in Augustine.

This book argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions and moral progress. Using his sermons to elucidate his treatises, Sarah Catherine Byers demonstrates how Augustine enriched Stoic cognitivism with Platonism to develop a fuller and coherent theory of action. That theory underlies his account of moral development, including his account of the mind's reception of grace. By analyzing Augustine's engagement with Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Origen and Philo of Alexandria, Byers sheds new light on a major thinker of the early Christian world whose work is of critical importance for understanding key and recurring themes in Western philosophy.

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