Pub Date : 2020-10-27DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300238532.003.0004
Michael P. Foley
This chapter offers commentary on books one and two of St. Augustine's On Order. In a series of short discussions, the penultimate of which ends badly, book one manages to convey several important teachings. The most important of these is that there is an order of things, a fact that can be affirmed simply by recognizing that nothing can happen without a cause. God is the Ultimate Orderer or Uncaused Causer responsible for this order. Moreover, God can arrange things in such a way that even evils which He did not cause are justly contained by order. Book one did not, however, fully answer two questions: the containment of evils by order and the commencement of evil. Book two, on the other hand, answers the first question more fully and offers guidelines for answering the second. Evils are contained in order precisely because a limit (modus) is placed on the amount of damage they can do, while their destructive qualities are co-opted by God (the summus modus) to have a just effect as punishments on the evil itself. Such is the case even though God Himself is in no way responsible for evil.
{"title":"Commentary","authors":"Michael P. Foley","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300238532.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300238532.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers commentary on books one and two of St. Augustine's On Order. In a series of short discussions, the penultimate of which ends badly, book one manages to convey several important teachings. The most important of these is that there is an order of things, a fact that can be affirmed simply by recognizing that nothing can happen without a cause. God is the Ultimate Orderer or Uncaused Causer responsible for this order. Moreover, God can arrange things in such a way that even evils which He did not cause are justly contained by order. Book one did not, however, fully answer two questions: the containment of evils by order and the commencement of evil. Book two, on the other hand, answers the first question more fully and offers guidelines for answering the second. Evils are contained in order precisely because a limit (modus) is placed on the amount of damage they can do, while their destructive qualities are co-opted by God (the summus modus) to have a just effect as punishments on the evil itself. Such is the case even though God Himself is in no way responsible for evil.","PeriodicalId":139274,"journal":{"name":"On Order","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123793937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE CASSICIACUM DIALOGUES","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvhn0dv2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvhn0dv2.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":139274,"journal":{"name":"On Order","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114179754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1995-01-01DOI: 10.7591/9781501705977-004
Michael P. Foley
1. To pursue and grasp the order proper to each and every thing,1 and then indeed to see or explain the order of the whole by which this world is held together and ruled2—that, Zenobius, is extremely rare and difficult for men to do....
{"title":"Book One","authors":"Michael P. Foley","doi":"10.7591/9781501705977-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501705977-004","url":null,"abstract":"1. To pursue and grasp the order proper to each and every thing,1 and then indeed to see or explain the order of the whole by which this world is held together and ruled2—that, Zenobius, is extremely rare and difficult for men to do....","PeriodicalId":139274,"journal":{"name":"On Order","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115206007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：