Augustine

Name: Augustine
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ISBN: 9780631233480

ISBN-10: 0631233482

ISBN-13: 9780631233480

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gareth B. Matthews

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The second volume in the Blackwell Great Minds series, Gareth B. Matthews 's Augustine offers students, scholars, and interested readers new insights into one of antiquity 's most important and influential philosophers.This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour through the life and work of Augustine. Topics discussed include skepticism, language acquisition, mind -body dualism, philosophical dream problems, time and creation, faith and reason, foreknowledge and free will. The book concludes with a consideration of how Augustine could be both a religious believer - indeed, a prominent theological dogmatist - and also a Socratic philosopher.This is very good book. It will…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Translations Used


Acknowledgements



The First-Person Point of View



Augustine#8217;s Life



Skepticism



Language



The Augustinian Cogito



Mind#8211;Body Dualism



The Problem of Other Minds



Philosophical Dream Problems



Time and Creation



Faith and Reason



Foreknowledge and Free Will



The Problem of Evil



Wanting Bad Things



Lying



Happiness



The Socratic Believer


Index