Loving the Many in the One: Augustine and the Love of Finite Goods

This is an essay in comparative ethics within the Platonist tradition. Although the primary focus is on Augustine's account of rightly ordered love of neighbor in De vera religione, it analyzes Augustine's account of the love of finite goods by comparing it with Plato's grounding of t...

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Main Author: Smith, J. Warren 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2016]
In: Religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 7, Issue: 11, Pages: 1-17
Further subjects:B uti-frui
B Symposium
B Platonism
B On True Religion
B Love
B Augustine of Hippo
B On Christian Doctrine
B THE ONE AND THE MANY
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