The Guise of the Bad in Augustine's Pear Theft
In the second book of his Confessions, Augustine of Hippo presents his famous juvenile Pear Theft as an apparent case of acting under the guise of the bad. At least since Thomas Aquinas' influential interpretation, scholars have usually taken Augustine's detailed discussion of the case to...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2018]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Jahr: 2018, Band: 21, Heft: 1, Seiten: 71-89 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAB Kirchengeschichte 30-500; Frühchristentum KAE Kirchengeschichte 900-1300; Hochmittelalter NBE Anthropologie VA Philosophie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Augustine
B Evil B Joint action B Aquinas B Guise of the good |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In the second book of his Confessions, Augustine of Hippo presents his famous juvenile Pear Theft as an apparent case of acting under the guise of the bad. At least since Thomas Aquinas' influential interpretation, scholars have usually taken Augustine's detailed discussion of the case to be dispelling this guise of the guise of the bad, and to offer a solid guise of the good-explanation. This paper addresses an important challenge to this view: Augustine offers two different guise of the good-explanations in his text rather than just one, and the two explanations seem to be mutually exclusive. A number of more recent attempts to reconcile Augustine's two lines of explanation are discussed and found wanting, and a new suggestion is made. The proposed solution focuses on the Pear Theft as a joint action, and it departs from the Aquinian interpretation in that it accounts for a way in which the guise of the bad-hypothesis survives the explanation. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-017-9854-6 |