Abstract
Pope Francis’s efforts to reduce the worst effects of global climate change can be enhanced by recourse to some of Augustine’s insights into excessive self-love; by criticizing consumerism’s ideal of freedom as the absence of constraint with the help of Michael Sandel and David Kelsey; and by identifying resources in Augustine, Francis, and Sandel for how to envision forms of life that, by enacting a deeper, bounded freedom, are healthier for humanity and for the rest of the planet.
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