Arendt and Augustine: More Than One Kind of Love

Autor:	Lucy Tatman
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Philosophy Politics Meaning (philosophy of language) Close reading Religious studies SAINT Political philosophy Theology Doctoral dissertation Philosophy of religion
Zdroj:	Sophia. 52:625-635
ISSN:	1873-930X 0038-1527
DOI:	10.1007/s11841-013-0363-3
Popis:	Although Hannah Arendt is not usually read as a philosopher of religion, her political philosophy is noticeably filled with references to religious figures and thinkers, including Jesus of Nazareth, Augustine and Duns Scotus. Also notable is the implicit centrality in her thought of amor mundi, or love of the world. The difficulty is that although she spoke to her students about it, she rarely wrote about amor mundi. In this article, I seek to provide a plausible explanation of the meaning of amor mundi in Arendt’s thought, drawing in particular upon the influence of Augustine on Arendt’s unique development of the ethical and political principle of love for the world. Specifically, through a close reading of Arendt’s doctoral dissertation, Love and Saint Augustine, I identify the relationship between Augustine’s conception of cupiditas and Arendt’s conception of amor mundi.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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