The Fall of the Soul in Book Two of Augustine’s Confessions

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" The Fall of the Soul in Book Two of Augustine’s Confessions "
Mateusz Stróżyński

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085428
Doc. No	:	LA129057
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341248‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Mateusz Stróżyński
Title & Author	:	The Fall of the Soul in Book Two of Augustine’s Confessions [Article]\ Mateusz Stróżyński
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Vigiliae Christianae
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	70/1
Page No	:	77–100
Abstract	:	The purpose of the paper is to show a mutual interaction of Platonic and Christian ideas in the pear theft narrative from Book Two of the Confessions. Augustine is provocatively questioning the Platonic theory of good, evil, and love by suggesting that in the theft he loved evil itself. He is considering three possible explanations, but is not fully content with any of them. Not having any better theory than the Platonic one, Augustine is suggesting that moral evil is completely beyond understanding. What is new in Augustine’s provocative analysis is placing the irrationality and incomprehensibility of moral evil in the context of the “I-Thou” relationship of the soul with God. The purpose of the paper is to show a mutual interaction of Platonic and Christian ideas in the pear theft narrative from Book Two of the Confessions. Augustine is provocatively questioning the Platonic theory of good, evil, and love by suggesting that in the theft he loved evil itself. He is considering three possible explanations, but is not fully content with any of them. Not having any better theory than the Platonic one, Augustine is suggesting that moral evil is completely beyond understanding. What is new in Augustine’s provocative analysis is placing the irrationality and incomprehensibility of moral evil in the context of the “I-Thou” relationship of the soul with God.
Descriptor	:	Augustine
Descriptor	:	Platonism
Descriptor	:	the fall of the soul
Descriptor	:	the origin of evil
Descriptor	:	the pear theft
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341248‬