Love and Saint Augustine
by Hannah Arendt
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Author: Hannah ArendtEditor: Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott
Editor: Judith Chelius Stark
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-04-26
ISBN: 0226025977
Number of pages: 254
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Book Review: A Young Arendt and Augustine's Philosophy of Love
Summary: 4 Stars
It seems to me that some people interested in this book will be familiar with either Arendt or Augustine, though certainly there are people familiar with both. But for those only familiar with one or the other: Arendt was a 20th Century German-American philosopher, probably most known for her work, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics). The primary text of this book contains her doctoral dissertation on Saint Augustine's philosophical conception of love. Saint Augustine was a Christian bishop in northern Africa in the first third of the 5th Century A.D. Augustine is best known for his works, City of God (Penguin Classics) and St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics).
Arendt's dissertation explores Augustine's understanding of the nature of love and the consequences of that understanding for the life of the Christian believer. In particular, Arendt differentiates between "caritas" and "cupiditas" as those terms are used by Augustine. "Caritas" is the right love that seeks eternity and the absolute future (i.e., God); "cupiditas" is the wrong love that clings to the world. The difference in the terms is therefore their object, but they both have "appetitus", or craving desire, as their common essence.
At this point I should mention than I'm trained neither in philosophy nor Latin, so you, dear reader, should resist the temptation to jump all over me for the sloppy job I did just above... I'm doing the best I can.
Because "caritas" is ultimately concerned with God and not things of this world, Arendt's dissertation ends with Augustine's understanding of the consequence adopting "caritas" has on our relations in this world with our neighbors. The second half of the book is an essay with four parts that I believe is written by Scott and Stark, the editors. These focus more on various aspects of Arendt's writings and development. This book as a whole is of the philosophic flavor and is a challenging read. I'd especially recommend it to Christians who have read Augustine and Arendt. Arendt's dissertation touches on most of Augustine's writing in some way or another, so this book actually provides some sense of the interplay between Augustine's writings. What this book is not is a theological or religious treatise, although Augustine's theology is inescapably present.
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