Augustine's Way Into the Will: The Theological and Philosophical Significance of de Libero Arbitrio

by Simon Harrison

An original account of Augustine's theory of will, based on a close reading of his pivotal and fundamental text, the dialogue On Free Choice. Simon Harrison takes Augustine's philosophical arguments and literary form seriously and so reveals a way of thinking about the will that is grounded in the individual reader's response. He shows the centrality of Augustine's philosophical method, his 'way in to the will', as opposed to the construction of a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198269846
• ISBN13: 9780198269847
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"