Stalnaker, Aaron.

Overcoming our evil : human nature and spiritual exercises in Xunzi and Augustine / [manuscript] : by Aaron Stalnaker. - Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006. - xxi, 330 p. ; 24 cm. - Moral traditions series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-319) and index.

Introduction -- Source and citation formats -- Comparative ethics -- Contexts for interpretation -- Ugly impulses and a muddy heart -- Broken images of the divine -- Comparing human "natures" -- Artifice is the way -- Crucifying and resurrecting the mind -- Reformations: spiritual exercises in comparative perspective -- Understanding and neighborliness.

1589015036 (pbk, cloth : alk. paper) 9781589010949

2005027249

GBA637077 bnb

013437964 Uk


Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Xunzi, 340 B.C.-245 B.C.


Good and evil.
Conduct of life.
Ethics.

BJ1401 / .S82 2006

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