Beschreibung:
"In realising the abyssal peril facing one's being, one is called into a dynamic method of exploration, dialectic, which is significant in terms of both substantive philosophical content and method. This work considers the fundamentally "oppositional" structure of reality, viewing Augustine as a "Christian Heraclitus" and focusing on his conception of dialectic"--
AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsGeneral Introduction1. Ephesian Resonances2. Building a Bridge: Heraclitus to Augustine3. Augustine and the Theo-log-ical Constitution of the Human Person4. The Methods of Augustinian Self-Constituion5. The Dialectical Self and the AbyssConcluding ThoughtsBibliographyIndex