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_aSalamito, Jean-Marie _eauthor |
| 245 | 0 | 0 | _aSaint Augustine and the definition of the city: Poles apart in “political Augustinianism” |
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| 520 | _aThis paper consists of two very different parts. Part I examines the development of Henri-Xavier Arquillière’s famous theory of “political Augustinianism” from 1925 to 1955. This theory in no way extends the work of Pierre Mandonnet and Étienne Gilson: it includes a number of inconsistencies and above all an obvious misunderstanding of Augustine’s ideas of nature and justice. It concludes by denouncing “political Augustinianism” as a myth, just as Henri de Lubac already did in 1984. Part II offers a reappraisal of Augustine’s critic of the Ciceronian definition of the populus and a reading of Augustine’s own definition as a neutral, secularized one, perfectly consistent with the idea of the possible concord between the two cities. Thus Augustine’s approach to political society is clearly free from any theocratic tendency: in fact, it is the very opposite of so-called “political Augustinianism.” | ||
| 786 | 0 | _nLes Études philosophiques | o 137 | 2 | 2021-04-22 | p. 27-52 | 0014-2166 | |
| 856 | 4 | 1 | _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-les-etudes-philosophiques-2021-2-page-27?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 |
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