Augustine

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'.

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).

acknowledgments

viii

translations used

ix

1 the first-person point of view

1

(6)

2 augustine's life

7

(8)

3 skepticism

15

(8)

4 language

23

(11)

5 the augustinian cogito

34

(9)

6 mind-body dualism

43

(10)

7 the problem of other minds

53

(12)

8 philosophical dream problems

65

(11)

9 time and creation

76

(10)

10 faith and reason

86

(10)

11 foreknowledge and free will

96

(9)

12 the problem of evil

105

(10)

13 wanting bad things

115

(10)

14 lying

125

(9)

15 happiness

134

(12)

index

146

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