Augustin neu lesen: Diskussionsbeitrag zu Kennth M. Wilson

Kurt Flasch

doi:10.5771/9783465146506

Summary

The interpretation of Augustine's ideas has always been controversial. In 2018, it entered a new crisis with the publication of Kenneth M. Wilson's book "Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to ‘Non-free Free Will’". The book is about Augustine's ‘conversion’, but not about the first one in Milan in 386, but the last one to his late doctrine. With respect to Augustine's last stage of development, the title of Wilson's book puts ‘freedom’ in quotation marks for, because although it is still called ‘freedom’, it is no longer that. Wilson establishes this precisely for Augustine's late phase, and it has consequences for a new overall picture of Augustine. Kurt Flasch tests the arguments of this original study non-polemically on the basis of Augustine's "Confessions", Book X. He examines in particular the relationship between the "Confessiones" and Augustine's letter to Simplician and comes to the conclusion (with Wilson) that it is time to read Augustine anew.

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-465-04650-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-465-14650-6
Publisher: Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Language: German
Pages: 164
Product Type: Monograph

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 10
I. Einleitung in die neue Situation: Kenneth M. Wilson No access Pages 11 - 26
II. Die Wende bleibt der "Brief an Simplician" No access Pages 27 - 40
1. 1. Vorbemerkung No access
  2. Augustinus von Hippo: Die Unterhaltung in Ostia. Confessiones IX 23 –26 No access
2. 1. Vorbemerkung No access
  2. Augustinus von Hippo, Die Bekenntnisse Buch X deutsch No access
3. 1. Vorbemerkung No access
  2. 1. Sonderstellung von Buch X No access
  3. 1. Staub und Asche No access
  4. III. Theorie der memoria (Confessiones X nn. 12–37) No access
  5. IV. Selbsterforschung No access
  6. V. Zeit. Buch XI No access
  7. VI. Interpretationen der Zeitlehre Augustins No access
IV. Conf X setzt Ad Simpl I 2 nicht voraus. Zur Diskussion mit Kenneth M. Wilson No access Pages 147 - 159
Quellen und Literatur No access Pages 160 - 164