Nietzsche on Augustine on Happiness
This article considers the criticisms made by Friedrich Nietzsche of the ethics of St Augustine. Nietzsche’s main criticism presses us to ask whether Augustine can recognize an internal connection between natural human activity and supernatural happiness. The absence of any such connection, alleges...
| Published in: | Studies in Christian ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 170-178 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBE Anthropology NCA Ethics TJ Modern history |
| Further subjects: | B
Augustine
B natural happiness B Happiness B Eudaimonism B Nietzsche B Gilbert Meilaender B Bioethics B Epicureanism B AUGUSTINIAN missions B God B Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 |
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| Summary: | This article considers the criticisms made by Friedrich Nietzsche of the ethics of St Augustine. Nietzsche’s main criticism presses us to ask whether Augustine can recognize an internal connection between natural human activity and supernatural happiness. The absence of any such connection, alleges Nietzsche, is the self-defeating flaw of Augustine’s eudaimonism, a flaw, paradoxically, that only insures human misery. Rebutting these charges, this article argues, requires us to recognize a form of natural happiness that is proportionate to create human nature. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Friendly Rejoinders (2017)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946816684443 |