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Author Stalnaker, Aaron.

Title Overcoming our evil [electronic resource] : human nature and spiritual exercises in Xunzi and Augustine / Aaron Stalnaker.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006.

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Description xxi, 330 p.
Series Moral traditions series
Moral traditions series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-319) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Xunzi, 340-245 B.C.
Good and evil.
Conduct of life.
Ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 1589010949 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781589010949

 
    
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