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Augustine / Gareth B. Matthews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthews, Gareth B., 1929-
- Series:
- Blackwell great minds.
- Blackwell great minds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Augustine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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'.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611310707
- 9781281310705
- 1281310700
- 9780470706725
- 0470706724
- 9780470776001
- 0470776005
- 9780470776780
- 0470776781
- OCLC:
- 264615379
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