Lehr- und Moralschriften (Enchiridion u.a.)
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Auswahl oder Teilwerk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
- Zustand des Textes:
- Mit Scanfehlern (automatische Messung über den ganzen Text, nicht von Hand geprüft) · 2 unlesbare Passagen, von den Antworten ausgeschlossen
- Umfang:
- ~320.000 Wörter · 1.520 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APAAugustinus von Hippo. (n.d.). Doctrinal and Moral Treatises (NPNF I/III: Enchiridion, On the Catechising, On Faith and the Creed, On Continence, On Lying, etc.) [Lehr- und Moralschriften (Enchiridion u.a.)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/augustine/doctrinal-and-moral-treatises-npnf-i-iii-enchiridion-on-the-catechising-on-faith-and-the-creed-on-continence-on-lying-etc
- MLAAugustinus von Hippo. Doctrinal and Moral Treatises (NPNF I/III: Enchiridion, On the Catechising, On Faith and the Creed, On Continence, On Lying, etc.) [Lehr- und Moralschriften (Enchiridion u.a.)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/augustine/doctrinal-and-moral-treatises-npnf-i-iii-enchiridion-on-the-catechising-on-faith-and-the-creed-on-continence-on-lying-etc.
- ChicagoAugustinus von Hippo. Doctrinal and Moral Treatises (NPNF I/III: Enchiridion, On the Catechising, On Faith and the Creed, On Continence, On Lying, etc.) [Lehr- und Moralschriften (Enchiridion u.a.)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/augustine/doctrinal-and-moral-treatises-npnf-i-iii-enchiridion-on-the-catechising-on-faith-and-the-creed-on-continence-on-lying-etc.
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Wovon es handelt
Eine Sammlung kürzerer Schriften Augustins: das Enchiridion, De catechizandis rudibus, De fide et symbolo, De continentia und die beiden Schriften über die Lüge.
Kontext und Geschichte
Das Enchiridion ist Augustin, der sich selbst zusammenfasst: ein knappes Handbuch des ganzen Glaubens, um Glaube, Hoffnung und Liebe herum geordnet, auf Bitten eines Mannes verfasst, der es kurz wollte. Die Schriften über die Lüge sind die, über die noch gestritten wird: Augustin hält daran fest, dass Lügen nie erlaubt sei, auch nicht, um ein Leben zu retten — eine der härtesten Positionen der ganzen christlichen Moral.
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and unchangeably good, all things were created; and these are not supremely and equally and unchangeably good, but yet they are good, even taken separately. Taken as a whole, however, they are very good, because their ensemble constitutes the universe in all its wonderful order and beauty. CHAP. II. — WHAT IS CALLED EVIL IN THE UNI- VERSE IS BUT THE ABSENCE OF GOOD. And in the universe, even that which is called evil, when it is regulated and put in its own place, only enhances our admiration of the good ; for we enjoy and value the good more when we compare it with the evil. For the Almighty God, who, as even the heathen acknowledge, has supreme power over all things, being Himself supremely good, would never permit the existence of anything evil among His works, if He were not so omnipotent and good that He can bring good even out of evil. For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good ? In the bodies of animals, disease and wounds mean nothing but the absence of health ; for when a cure is effected, that does not mean that the evils which were present — namely, the diseases and wounds — go away from the body and dwell elsewhere : they altogether cease to exist ; for the wound or disease is not a substance, but a defect in the fleshly substance, — the flesh itself being a substance, and therefore something good, of which those evils — that is, privations of the good which we call health — are accidents. Just in the same way, what are called vices in the soul are nothing but privations of natural good. And when they are cured, they are not transferred elsewhere : when they cease to exist in the healthy soul, they cannot exist anywhere else. CHAP. 12. ALL BEINGS WERE MADE GOOD, BUT NOT BEING MADE PERFECTLY GOOD, ARE LIABLE TO CORRUPTION.