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Reconsiderations
work by Augustine
Also known as: “Retractationes”
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discussed in biography
- In St. Augustine: Reconsiderations
Retractationes (426–427; Reconsiderations), written in the last years of his life, offers a retrospective rereading of Augustine’s career. In form, the book is a catalog of his writings with comments on the circumstances of their composition and with the retractions or rectifications he would…
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lying
- In lying: The morality of lying
Augustine—whose De mendacio, in the Reconsiderations, was the first systematic discussion of lying—argued that lying is always impermissible, although he granted as sometimes allowable that one may avoid telling the truth, a view that was later endorsed by Thomas Aquinas (c. 1224/25–1274 ce) in the Summa theologiae.
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