Augustine / Gareth B. Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, Gareth B., 1929-2011.

Series:

Blackwell great minds ; 2.

Blackwell great minds ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Augustine.

Physical Description:

x, 148 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Summary:

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 prove useful for all graduate and post-graduate students, as well as any armchair philosopher and theologian.Themelios vol. 31/3

Contents:

The first-person point of view

Augustine's life

Skepticism

Language

The Augustinian cogito

Mind-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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0631233474

0631233482

OCLC:

56615746