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Regio Beatitudinis

其他書名	Augustine's Concept of Happiness
出版	Villanova University Press, 1981
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UYIXAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋[Flaptekst] In the course of the present rehabilitation of Practical Philosophy the sometimes suppressed questions of happiness, a happy life or the search for man's identity has again become a central theme in philosophy. Even with regard to the consciousness of one's own historical situation, it is wise to consider previous answers to this question. Augustine's answer combines Platonic, Aristotelian and Plotinian conceptions with a specifically Christian outlook, achieving thereby a productive synthesis. In spite of definite differences, both moments of this unity - the philosophical-Greek and the Christian - are connected by the conviction that happiness is grounded in a seeing, knowing or intensive comprehension of a Being which is experienced in thinking inwardness as its transcendent, historically indissoluble foundation. From this thinking inwardness it establishes itself as the measure of rational and liberating action. In reflecting on Augustine's concept of happiness contemporary consciousness would have to be critically reminded that happiness is not dependent upon some kind of subjectivism or upon basically interchangeable moods and feelings, nor upon a "truth" which dissolves totally in historical relativism, but rather consists in the recognition of an idea which endures as obliging in its historical transformations. In spite of reservations toward "metaphysics", it is from this realm that the present discussions about happiness could receive new impulses.