Book contents
- Augustine on the Nature of Virtue and Sin
- Augustine on the Nature of Virtue and Sin
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Translations and Abbreviations
- 1 Introducing the Issues
- 2 Political Virtues?
- 3 Political Vices?
- 4 Augustine’s Definitions of Virtue
- 5 Augustine’s Place within the Eudaimonist Tradition
- 6 The Life in Accordance with Nature
- 7 Self-Love and Neighbour-Love
- 8 The Nature of Sin
- 9 Weakness, Ignorance, and Pride
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - The Life in Accordance with Nature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2024
Book contents
- Augustine on the Nature of Virtue and Sin
- Augustine on the Nature of Virtue and Sin
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Translations and Abbreviations
- 1 Introducing the Issues
- 2 Political Virtues?
- 3 Political Vices?
- 4 Augustine’s Definitions of Virtue
- 5 Augustine’s Place within the Eudaimonist Tradition
- 6 The Life in Accordance with Nature
- 7 Self-Love and Neighbour-Love
- 8 The Nature of Sin
- 9 Weakness, Ignorance, and Pride
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter finds that Augustine self-consciously departed from Stoicism and Platonism (while remaining within eudaimonism) in finding that there were other natural objects of human beings’ eros-love besides the highest good. This finding leads to a new explanation of Augustine’s distinction between use and enjoyment and to a new explanation of his view that grief would be found not only in the lives of the vicious but in the lives of the virtuous as well.
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- Augustine on the Nature of Virtue and Sin , pp. 207 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023