Augustine

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Augustine

Gareth B. Matthews

Description

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 the Author

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).

Features

Explores new insights into one of antiquity’s most important philosophers
Offers thought-provoking discussion on Augustine’s life and times
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’.

Series

Blackwell Great Minds

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