Matthews Augustine

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77678-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Great Minds

This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour throughthe life and work of Augustine.
* Explores new insights into one of antiquity's mostimportant philosophers
* Topics Include: skepticism, language acquisition, mind-bodydualism, philosophical dream problems, time and creation, faith andreason, foreknowledge and free will, and Augustine's standingas 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).