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.