Overcoming our evil human nature and spiritual exercises in Xunzi and Augustine. - Stalnaker, Aaron (Washington Georgetown university, 2006)
Introduction -- Source and citation formats -- Comparative ethics -- Contexts for interpretation -- Ugly impulses and a muddy heart -- Broken images of the divine -- Comparing human "natures" -- Artifice is the way -- Crucifying and resurrecting the mind -- Reformations: spiritual exercises in comparative perspective -- Understanding and neighborliness.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-319) and index.
Keywords: Augustine, -- of Hippo, Saint, -- 354-430.; Xunzi, -- 340 B.C.-245 B.C.; Conduct of life; Ethics; Good and evil; 276 =71 AUGUSTINUS -- Latijnse patrologie--AUGUSTINUS; 299.512 -- Confucianisme. Mencius. I Ching