id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt k6439z92b2p David Mark DiQuattro Learning to Speak: A Prelude to an Augustinian Conception of Practical Reason 2010 .txt text/plain 281 11 36 This dissertation seeks to develop the outline of an Augustinian approach to ethics by bringing Augustine into contact with contemporary reflections on practical reason. The dissertation articulates an Augustinian understanding of practical reason by discussing ways that these debates can benefit from Augustine's insight that all exercises of practical reason which fail to recognize that the human heart is restless until it rests in God are self-defeating. cache/k6439z92b2p.txt txt/k6439z92b2p.txt