Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Local Politics
Household in Augustine's City of God
The A. explores Augustine's political vision on a smaller, more practical scale. Augustine sees the household as a crucual sphere of political life, one essential to the cultivation of habits of humility and charity. His household politics offered his late antique Christian audience strategies to re...
| Auteur: | Kevin L. Hughes |
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| Pages: | 145-164 |
| Langue: | anglais |
| Format: | Essay |
| Sujet: | -
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Aristotélisme / Nouvelle Académie
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- Doctrine > La vie sociale > Sociologie. Cité terrestre. Politique > Études d'ensemble > Vie sociale > Vie sociale |
| Parent Work: | Augustine and politics |
| Statut: | Active |
| Résumé: | The A. explores Augustine's political vision on a smaller, more practical scale. Augustine sees the household as a crucual sphere of political life, one essential to the cultivation of habits of humility and charity. His household politics offered his late antique Christian audience strategies to resist Rome's imperial "colonization of the imagination", and, Hughes suggests, it may offer surprising possibilities to households and families in an age of comsumerism. |
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The Political Place of the Household in Augustine's City of God