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Augustine’s Social Ethics in De civitate Dei

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2018, (41), pp.71-100
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2018.41.03
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : June 21, 2018
  • Accepted : August 11, 2018

Moon, Si Young 1

1남서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

Although there have been many views on Augustine’s social ethics, including Niebuhr and Hauerwas, they have failed to pay attention to ‘inner reflection’ inner reflection. Interestingly, Arendt has claimed the limits of the concept of love through critical reading of Augustine, it paradoxically became a catalyst for the interpretation of Augustine’s social ethics. That is because the concept of love is the core of Augustine’s inner reflection. Augustine’s view that the two loves have made two cities is an expanded application of inner reflection. In other words, the characteristic of Augustine’s social ethics is the ‘social ethics based on inner reflection’ which led the pursuit of ‘new citizenship’ began with Confessions to ‘heavenly citizenship’ of De civitate Dei. In this context, Augustine suggests the tasks of having identity of pilgrims, overcoming of splendid vices, and practicing heavenly values in civitas terrena. Above all, Augustinian social ethics encourages pilgrims to practice alternatives of honorable poverty and temperance in the age of avarice with the identity of pilgrims.

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