Augustine
by Matthews, Gareth B.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-01-24
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour through the life and work of Augustine. Explores new insights into one of antiquity's most important philosophers Topics Include: skepticism, language acquisition, mind-body dualism, philosophical dream problems, time and creation, faith and reason, foreknowledge and free will, and Augustine's standing as a 'Socratic philosopher'.
Author Biography
Gareth B. Matthews is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts. His publications include Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy (1999), The Augustinian Tradition (ed., 1999) and Augustine: On the Trinity – Books 8–15 (ed., 2002).
Table of Contents
| acknowledgments | viii | ||||
| translations used | ix | ||||
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1 | (6) | |||
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7 | (8) | |||
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15 | (8) | |||
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23 | (11) | |||
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34 | (9) | |||
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43 | (10) | |||
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53 | (12) | |||
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65 | (11) | |||
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76 | (10) | |||
| 10 faith and reason | 86 | (10) | |||
| 11 foreknowledge and free will | 96 | (9) | |||
| 12 the problem of evil | 105 | (10) | |||
| 13 wanting bad things | 115 | (10) | |||
| 14 lying | 125 | (9) | |||
| 15 happiness | 134 | (12) | |||
| index | 146 |
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