Political and social ideas of St. Augustine (Record no. 28911)

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Classification number 320.5 Aug
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Personal name Deane, Herbert A.
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Title Political and social ideas of St. Augustine
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Columbia University Press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1963
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Extent 356p.
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Summary, etc. For a number of years, in teaching undergraduate and graduate<br/>courses in the history of political thought, I have found that<br/>the problem of giving students an adequate grasp of the social<br/>and political ideas of St. Augustine presents unusual difficulties.<br/>In no single work by Augustine, comparable to Plato's Republic,<br/>Aristotle's Politics, Hobbes's Leviathan, or Hegel's Rechtsphi-<br/>losophie, can his leading ideas about man, society, and the state<br/>be found. Nor can the student be sent to a work where Augustine<br/>expounds his entire philosophy, including his teachings on these<br/>subjects. He never produced a synthesis of his thought like the<br/>Summa Theologica of St. Thomas, which contains orderly, sys-<br/>tematic treatments of such topics as law, justice, and obedience.<br/>The usual recourse for the teacher is to ask the student to<br/>read Augustine's The City of God. This book, however, offers<br/>both too much and too little; too much, because it is a very long,<br/>discursive work, written over a period of thirteen years, which<br/>includes a great deal of material that is of only peripheral interest<br/>to the student of social and political ideas (e.g., the details of the<br/>polemic against pagan religion, or the frequent, extended dis-<br/>cussions of purely theological issues); too little, because a num-<br/>ber of crucial aspects of Augustine's thought, such as his views<br/>on the question of using the power of the state to punish heresy<br/>and schism, are not treated at all, or are treated only partially.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Political science
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