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Book Review: Political Theory: Free Will

was about Augustine’s philosophy of love, and Augustine’s conceptions of caritas and cupiditas have influenced most of Arendt’s thoughts on natality, worldliness, initium, immortality, evil, etc. Many studies have tried to unfold the hidden philosophical foundations that Augustine’s ideas laid in Arendt’s mind, or to display the buried connections between Arendt’s political theories and Augustine’s politics of neighbourhood or his philosophy of will and freedom.Whether intentionally or not, such studies place philosophy as an authority over or basis for political thinking, and it would have been good if Buckler had provided more evaluation of the Augustinian basis to Arendt’s thinking and questioned how strong the influence actually is.