Addiction and the Captive Will - Professor Cynthia Geppert

Addiction and the Captive Will

A Colloquy between Neuroscience and Augustine of Hippo
Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2024
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-71352-0 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Twenty-first century neuroscience has discovered that in some severe cases, addiction may so constrain human freedom that the will is only able to choose to use substances of abuse. At this advanced stage, substance use has become the primary driver of salience, co-opting
and subsuming other moral priorities and human rewards. Scholars have investigated Aristotle’s concept of akrasia as an ancient mirror of this understanding and there have been some preliminary discussions of Augustine’s concept of the divided will as it bears on addiction.

No detailed and comprehensive exploration of the work of Augustine has yet been undertaken as it relates to three contemporary models of addiction: the choice, learning, and brain disease models. Augustine’s psychological awareness, his mastery of ancient theological and philosophical thinking, and his enormous and enduring influence on both Catholic and Protestant theology, make him an ideal subject for such research. This incisive book argues that Augustine’s doctrine of the captive will offers a theological parallel of each of these contemporary models of addiction.

Cynthia Geppert is Professor of Psychiatry & Internal Medicine and Director of Ethics Education at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, USA. She is also Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, USA.

Chapter 1
Eternal Questions

Part I: The Historical and Philosophical Review of the Models of Addiction

Chapter 2
Models and Methods in Addictionology

Chapter 3
The Moral Model of Addiction

Chapter 4
The Disease Model of Addiction

Chapter 5
The Brain Disease Model of Addiction

Chapter 6
The Backlash Against the Brain Disease Model and the Rise of Alternative Models

Part II: Phenomenology of the Confessions

Chapter 7
Books I through IV: Augustine the Lost Seeker

Chapter 8
Books V through VII: Augustine's Intellectual Conversion

Chapter 9
The Conversion of the Will: Books VIII through IX

Chapter 10
The Conversions of Memory: Books X through XIII

Part III: Theological Analysis

Chapter 11
The Captivity of the Will

Chapter 12
Augustine, Sin, and the Models of Addiction

Chapter 13
Grace and the Models of Addiction

Chapter 14
The Colloguium between Augustine and Addiction

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 0-567-71352-0 / 0567713520
ISBN-13 978-0-567-71352-0 / 9780567713520
Zustand Neuware
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