... of human freedom and its attendant joys and responsibilities, and should be placed among the great founding documents of the Enlightenment. This book treats the famous “geometrical method” of the Ethics as a form of moral rhetoric, a model for the construction of individuality. It presents...

.... Acts four profferred the hope of a community that was self-regulating. However, if that was the promise of the Acts verses, it was not one they could deliver — not without the intervention of an expert on moral rhetoric. Augustine of Hippo's contemporaries and his late readers, for all that they may...

... Roman and early medieval Mediterranean. It charts the development of this new moral rhetoric by abbots, teachers, and bishops from the time of Augustine of Hippo to that of St Benedict and Gregory the Great....