Being and Conversion: A phenomenlogical Ontology of Radical Restlessness.

This work is a systematic, phenomenological investigation of the experience of human restlessness; as such, it is an original, existential interpretation of St. Augustin's Christian thought in as much as it achieves a philosophical synthesis of Augustine and Martin Heidegger's Being and Time work. U...

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Author:Craig John Neumann de Paulo
Published: Gregoriana, Romae, 1995
Notes:Diss. Ph.D. Diss. Abstr. Int. A 58 (1997/98) 1312
Total Pages:237
Format:Dissertation
Topic:- Works > Studies on Vocabulary/Themes > Topics - Latin vocabulary > P > Perversio
- Works > Confessiones > Topics > [Inquiétude]
- Doctrine > Man > [Angoisse. Solitude] > [Inquiétude]
- Doctrine > From man to God > [Morale] > Faith > Conversion > Conversion
- Influence and Survival > [Époque Contemporaine (1789-1960)] > Authors > Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976)
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Summary:This work is a systematic, phenomenological investigation of the experience of human restlessness; as such, it is an original, existential interpretation of St. Augustin's Christian thought in as much as it achieves a philosophical synthesis of Augustine and Martin Heidegger's Being and Time work. Using Heidegger's hermeneutical methodology, the author composes what he calls a 'fundamental ontology' founded upon, and intrinsic to, Augustine's experience of restlessness in the Confessions. The author begins this massive philosophical project by first showing the significance of Augustine for understanding Heidegger's Being and Time by disclosing what he calls the 'Augustinian constitution' of this work. Thus, having shown the great influence of Augustine on Heidegger's thought and methodology and revealing major concepts in the text as being secular version of Augustin's concepts (sometimes synthetisized with Aristotle), the author further argues for their intrinsic compatibility. The work is an interesting contribution to Augustinian and Heideggerian studies as well as being an original phenomenology in which the author hopes to cause a scholarly revival in Augustinian philosophy and theology, or an 'Augustinian phenomenology'.