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Loving is not what it should be, and not as it should be: literary images of the fall of the soul in the second and fourth books of Augustine's Confessions  
Kochając nie to, co należy i nie tak, jak należy: literackie obrazy upadku duszy w II i IV księdze Wyznań Augustyna

Creator:

Stróżyński, Mateusz

Subject and Keywords:

Augustine   Confessions   original sin   fall of the soul  
Augustyn (św. ; 354-430)   Wyznania   grzech pierworodny   upadek duszy

Abstract:

One of the major problems which Augustine touches upon in the Confessions is the question of the fall of the soul, or the original sin, which has given rise to the existential situation in which all humans live – that of spiritual malaise and death. In this text I examine two significant images of the fall of the soul as they appear in books 2 and 4. My aim will be to demonstrate that suggestive allegories conceal deliberate philosophical content and that both these well-known scenes – I mean those of the theft of the pears from the neighbour’s garden and the death of the close friend – symbolically present two essential aspects of Augustinian conception of the fall of the soul and of sin.

Publisher:

Instytut Studiów Klasycznych, Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych

Date issued:

2013

Detailed Type:

czasopisma (wydawnictwa ciągłe)

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

oai:repozytorium.uni.wroc.pl:79938   ISSN 2449-6901

DOI:

10.23734/WSC.2013.2.83.104

Language:

eng   pol

Rights holder:

Copyright by Mateusz Stróżyński

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