Augustine - Softcover

Matthews, Gareth B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631233482 ISBN 13: 9780631233480

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

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’.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

From the Publisher:

"Matthews is one of the world’s leading authorities – perhaps the leading authority – on Augustine the philosopher. In this book, he provides a series of vignettes of Augustine in philosophical action: arguing against the skeptics, worrying about the nature of time, trying to dissipate the tensions between foreknowledge and free will, and trying to figure out what counts as a lie. There is no one better equipped to spot these issues and subject them to sensitive, sympathetic, yet critical analysis." William Mann, University of Vermont

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0631233482
• ISBN 13: 9780631233480
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160