Augustine

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-631-23348-0
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 242 g

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’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matthews, Gareth B

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments viii

Translations Used ix

1 The First-Person Point of View 1

2 Augustine’s Life 7

3 Skepticism 15

4 Language 23

5 The Augustinian Cogito 34

6 Mind–Body Dualism 43

7 The Problem of Other Minds 53

8 Philosophical Dream Problems 65

9 Time And Creation 76

10 Faith And Reason 86

11 Foreknowledge And Free Will 96

12 The Problem of Evil 105

13 Wanting Bad Things 115

14 Lying 125

15 Happiness 134

Index 146

Über Autor(innen)

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).