Cambridge Companion to Augustine

Name: Cambridge Companion to Augustine
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ISBN: 9780521659857

ISBN-10: 052165985X

ISBN-13: 9780521659857

Edition: 2001

Authors: Eleonore Stump, Norman Kretzmann

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It is hard to overestimate the importance of the work of Augustine of Hippo, both in his own period and in the subsequent history of Western philosophy. Until the thirteenth century, when he may have had a competitor in Thomas Aquinas, he was the most important philosopher of the medieval period. Many of his views, including his theory of the just war, his account of time and eternity, his understanding of the will, his attempted resolution of the problem of evil, and his approach to the relation of faith and reason, have continued to be influential up to the present time. In this volume of specially-commissioned essays, sixteen scholars provide a wide-ranging and stimulating contribution…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction Eleonore Stump



Augustine: his time and lives




Faith and reason




Augustine on evil and original




Predestination, pelagianism and foreknowledge




Biblical interpretation




The divine nature




De Trinitate




Time and creation in Augustine




Augustineï¿½s theory of soul




Augustine on free will




Augustineï¿½s philosophy of memory




The response to skepticism and the mechanisms of cognition




Knowledge and illumination




Augustineï¿½s philosophy of language




Augustineï¿½s ethics




Augustineï¿½s political philosophy




Augustine and medieval philosophy




Post-medieval Augustinianism