
HoP 114 - Sarah Byers on Augustine's Ethics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Stoics and Moral Psychology in Augustine's Sermons
A lot of his sermons contain this theory or at least make allusions to it. He thinks that some emotions are morally bad and therefore in the sermons, he's explaining to people how they can be forced-dolled. The way of talking about concrete actions is all from the stoics. So the two things work together in tandem. Right. And it still sounds anyway like it's more of a stoic theory with a bit of platonism added on top rather than what you might have expected,. which is a platonic theory with traces of stoic terminology or whatever.
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