St. Augustine and the Christian Idea of Progress: The Background of the City of God

Mommsen, Theodor

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“…In the late fourth and early fifth centuries, Saint Augustine looked for ways to reconcile the idea of progress with Christianity. Rather optimistically, he saw (Christian) humanity gradually rising over the centuries (Nisbet 1992, 13;Mommsen 1951). While Augustine's ultimate interest lay in divine providence, his writings reinforced the idea of seeing history as a linear, cumulative process towards reason.…”

Section: What Progress Has Meant and What It Could Meanmentioning

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"Weltbeziehung"

2023

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Die Soziologie der Weltbeziehungen untersucht, wie Menschen sich in der Welt verorten und mit ihr in Verbindung treten. Auf welche Weise dieser Ansatz für unterschiedliche Disziplinen fruchtbar gemacht werden kann, zeigt dieser Band. Dabei widmen sich die Autor:innen einer Analyse grundlegender Konzepte der westlichen Moderne – etwa den Praktiken des Teilens und Tauschens. Darüber hinaus eröffnen sie eine historisch sowie global vergleichende Perspektive anhand vielfältiger Themen, etwa dem Verständnis von Markt und Eigentum in China oder der Dekolonisierung von Forschung in Indien. Hieran anschließend formulieren sie konkrete Vorschläge zu einer Neuausrichtung der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Section: What Progress Has Meant and What It Could Meanmentioning

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“…For the church father Eusebius writing in the fourth century, it “was not by mere human accident” but “of God's arrangement” that the universal empire of peace came in time for the universal religion of peace ( Mommsen, 1951 , p. 361). Both strove to unify and pacify the world's peoples:…”

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The Roman State and Genetic Pacification

Fröst

2010

Evol Psychol

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Over the last 10,000 years, the human genome has changed at an accelerating rate. The change seems to reflect adaptations to new social environments, including the rise of the State and its monopoly on violence. State societies punish young men who act violently on their own initiative. In contrast, non-State societies usually reward such behavior with success, including reproductive success. Thus, given the moderate to high heritability of male aggressiveness, the State tends to remove violent predispositions from the gene pool while favoring tendencies toward peacefulness and submission. This perspective is applied here to the Roman state, specifically its long-term effort to pacify the general population. By imperial times, this effort had succeeded so well that the Romans saw themselves as being inherently less violent than the "barbarians" beyond their borders. By creating a pacified and submissive population, the empire also became conducive to the spread of Christianity-a religion of peace and submission. In sum, the Roman state imposed a behavioral change that would over time alter the mix of genotypes, thus facilitating a subsequent ideological change.

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“…1 No artigo St. Augustine and the Christian Idea of Progress: The Background of the City of God, publicado em 1951 no Journal of the History of Ideas, o historiador alemão Theodor E. Mommsen explora a concepção cristã de progresso presente na obra "Cidade de Deus" de Santo Agostinho (MOMMSEN, 1951).…”

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AS ANTINOMIAS DO PROGRESSO: Theodor Adorno, Amy Allen e a descolonização da teoria crítica

Barbosa

2023

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A partir da discussão adorniana acerca dos elementos basilares da modernidade, destacando a barbárie do processo de civilização, o presente texto discorre sobre o argumento de Amy Allen na defesa da necessária interseção entre teoria crítica e pensamento pós-colonial. A fim de cumprir com a proposta, a estrutura segue a ordem de (i) apresentar o pensamento de Theodor Adorno, com destaque à sua concepção da dialética do esclarecimento, servindo de ponto de partida para (ii) indicar as possibilidades de comunicação com leituras pós-coloniais de crítica à modernidade que servem à síntese de renovação da teoria crítica de linha frankfurtiana intencionada por Amy Allen como tentativa de resposta às problemáticas dessa própria corrente de pensamento. A metodologia utilizada foi a revisão de literatura, a partir da seleção de artigos e livros que abordam o pensamento de Theodor Adorno, a dialética do esclarecimento e a crítica pós-colonial à modernidade. A partir dessa revisão, foram identificadas as possibilidades de comunicação entre esses dois campos teóricos e como a autora propõe uma renovação da teoria crítica para lidar com as problemáticas atuais.

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St. Augustine and the Christian Idea of Progress: The Background of the City of God

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The Roman State and Genetic Pacification

AS ANTINOMIAS DO PROGRESSO: Theodor Adorno, Amy Allen e a descolonização da teoria crítica

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