Abstract
A striking aspect of Hannah Arendt's political thought which has received scant critical attention is her use of medieval Christian philosophical themes, concepts, and methods, particularly those of Aurelius Augustine. This article traces Arendt's adaptation of Augustine's philosophy of freedom from her dissertation in 1929 through her last work, published posthumously in 1978. The author shows how deeply Arendt has drawn from both Augustine's justification of free will against external powers, whether divine or political, and his simultaneous insistence on the importance of civic virtue and political order.
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