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The Political and Social Ideas of Saint Augustine
February, 1966
Paper, 376 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-08569-4
$42.00
/ £29.00
A critical essay on St. Augustine's social and political thought.
In describing Augustine, the author captures the essence of the man in these words: “Genius he had in full measure... he is the master of the phrase or the sentence that embodies a penetrating insight, a flash of lightning that illuminates the entire sky; he is the rhetorician, the epigrammist, the polemicist, but not the patient, logical systematic philosopher.”