Traités doctrinaux et moraux (Enchiridion et autres)
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- APAAugustin d'Hippone. (n.d.). Doctrinal and Moral Treatises (NPNF I/III: Enchiridion, On the Catechising, On Faith and the Creed, On Continence, On Lying, etc.) [Traités doctrinaux et moraux (Enchiridion et autres)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/augustine/doctrinal-and-moral-treatises-npnf-i-iii-enchiridion-on-the-catechising-on-faith-and-the-creed-on-continence-on-lying-etc
- MLAAugustin d'Hippone. Doctrinal and Moral Treatises (NPNF I/III: Enchiridion, On the Catechising, On Faith and the Creed, On Continence, On Lying, etc.) [Traités doctrinaux et moraux (Enchiridion et autres)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/augustine/doctrinal-and-moral-treatises-npnf-i-iii-enchiridion-on-the-catechising-on-faith-and-the-creed-on-continence-on-lying-etc.
- ChicagoAugustin d'Hippone. Doctrinal and Moral Treatises (NPNF I/III: Enchiridion, On the Catechising, On Faith and the Creed, On Continence, On Lying, etc.) [Traités doctrinaux et moraux (Enchiridion et autres)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/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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De quoi il s'agit
Un ensemble de traités brefs d'Augustin : l'Enchiridion, De catechizandis rudibus, De fide et symbolo, De continentia et les deux écrits sur le mensonge.
Contexte et histoire
L'Enchiridion, c'est Augustin se résumant lui-même : un bref manuel de toute la foi ordonné autour de la foi, de l'espérance et de la charité, écrit à la demande de quelqu'un qui en voulait un court. Les écrits sur le mensonge sont ceux qu'on discute encore : Augustin y soutient qu'il n'est jamais permis de mentir, pas même pour sauver une vie, et c'est l'une des positions les plus dures de toute la morale chrétienne.
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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.