Conversion and Freedom

Confessions

The intervention of transcendences within the immanence of subjectivity and the immanence of social practices is the means by which both are integrated, each drawn out of its own self-absorption. This chapter investigates how Augustine integrates the self and society through a reading of his confess...

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Author:Geoffrey Holsclaw
Published: Wiley, Chichester, 2016
Pages:155-191
Language:English
Format:Essay
Topic:- Works > Confessiones
- Doctrine > Social Life > [Sociologie. Cité terrestre. Politique] > [Études d'ensemble] > [Vie sociale]
- Doctrine > Man > [Doctrine de la connaissance] > [Connaissance de soi. Le cogito] > [Connaissance de soi]
Parent Work: Transcending Subjects : Augustine, Hegel, and Theology
Status:Active
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Summary:The intervention of transcendences within the immanence of subjectivity and the immanence of social practices is the means by which both are integrated, each drawn out of its own self-absorption. This chapter investigates how Augustine integrates the self and society through a reading of his confessions. It first focuses on the conversion of the will and God's providential intervention and discusses the nature and causes of the divided will, concluding with the famous garden scene of Augustine's conversion. The chapter then encounters paradoxical understandings of freedom and elucidates how Augustine skillfully reveals the social aspects of his conversion. It finally explores the cosmological and Christological foundation from which Augustine builds his account of conversion, making explicit the importance of God's self-immanenting transcendence in creating the conditions for integrating an account of subjective and social conversion.

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