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This is the translation of Saint Augustine’s (354-430) treatise De libero arbitrio voluntatis, which was begun in the year 387-88, two years after his conversion to Catholic Christianity. It was completed in 395.
Translators Anna S. Benjamin and L. H. Hackstaff write in the Translator’s Preface, “To minimize our distortion of the original work, we have tried to be consistent in the representation of the technical terms which Augustine uses, to preserve Augustine’s method of presenting arguments in the negative, and to express the force of every word in its context. We hope that we may describe, at least in silhouette, that striking image of the author’s mind: the style of the Augustinian sentence, replete with qualifiers and faithful to the tradition of Ciceronian Latin.”
Contents:
- Introduction
- Selected Bibliography
- On Free Choice of the Will
- Book One
- Book Two
- Book Three
- Appendix: Retractions
- Index