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    Augustine was a prominent Christian philosopher and theologian. He was born in 354 AD in North Africa and became a bishop in 396 AD. He drew from many philosophical influences including Manichaeism, Stoicism, Neoplatonism, and Cicero. His works addressed topics like the nature of God, free will, evil, truth, and happiness. He is best known for his Confessions, which applied his philosophical views to his own conversion to Christianity. Overall, Augustine had a significant impact on Western philosophy and Christian theology.

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    Augustine was a prominent Christian philosopher and theologian. He was born in 354 AD in North Africa and became a bishop in 396 AD. He drew from many philosophical influences including Manichaeism, Stoicism, Neoplatonism, and Cicero. His works addressed topics like the nature of God, free will, evil, truth, and happiness. He is best known for his Confessions, which applied his philosophical views to his own conversion to Christianity. Overall, Augustine had a significant impact on Western philosophy and Christian theology.

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    AUGUSTINE (THAGASTE 354 AD) ○ evil exists bec of God's

    I. LIFE AND PHILOSOPHICAL READINGS impotence (rather than


    ★ Mother: St. Monnica through human impotence)
    ★ Christian Catechumen ○ two kinds of beauty: beauty
    ★ Died as bishop of Hippo (Annaba, inherent in the thing itself and
    Algeria) beauty by virtue of the thing's
    ○ Established religious use.
    community ○ monad/dyad principles
    ○ Became bishop in 396 (neo-platonist ideas)
    ★ Baptized at 387 ■ Identified Monad with
    ★ Lived with a concubine for 15 years the "good" God of
    ○ Son: Adeodatus (died 389, Manichaeism, and the
    abandoned his plan of Dyad with the
    marrying heiress of high social Manichaean concept
    standing; celibacy) of evil as a substance
    ★ 18 y.o.: Cicero’s Hortensius ★ RHETOR - taught at Carthage, Rome,
    ○ Introduced him to Philosophy and Milan HELD POST OF PUBLIC
    and ethical eudemonism RATOR
    ○ Inspired him to know the truth ★ Milan: neo - platonism
    ★ Manichaeism - appeal to reason ○ Read Plotinus and Porphyry
    than authority ○ Heard sermons of Ambrose
    ○ stressed purity of life and the whose Platonizing Christianity
    the importance of Christ undermined materialistic
    ○ dualistic religion that offered concept of God that A found
    salvation through special in Manichaeism and Stoicism
    knowledge (gnosis) of spiritual ★ Wasn’t good in Greek (depended
    truth. on translations for philo, scripture
    ○ Evil and good principles are and theo literature)
    “substances” at war in the ★ Most works are influenced by Cicero
    indiv and the universe ○ Contra Academicos
    ★ 1st work: De pulchro et apto (On the (ACADEMICA)
    Beautiful and the Fitting) ○ De ordine and De beata vita
    ○ beauty vs appropriateness ■ nature of happiness and
    ○ Stoic theory of beauty as its relation to knowledge
    proportion of the parts of a ■ Nature of God
    thing ■ Order in the universe
    ○ Good = Beautiful ■ Problem of evil
    ○ Evil = substance that caused ○ Soliloquia
    division and conflict ■ Nature of mind
    ○ Impossible for God to be ■ Identification of truth
    omnipotent and omnipresent with being
    ■ Problem of error
    ★ Characteristic theories of the will
    and semantics weren’t developed
    until after baptism and return to
    Thagaste in 388
    ○ De libero arbitrio
    ■ Directed against
    Manichees
    ○ De Magistro
    ○ De vera religione - first mature
    synthesis of his thought
    ★ CONFESSIONS
    ○ Applied his analysis of the will
    and Pauline principles to his
    conversion
    ■ Missing from
    Cassiciacum dialogues
    ★ 397: philosophical views formed
    ○ De trinitate (philosophy of the
    mind)
    ○ De Genesi ad litteram
    (creation, soul,
    sense-perception,
    imagination)
    ○ De doctrina chistiana
    (hermeneutics)
    ○ De civitate dei (ethics and
    social theory)
    ★ Wrote about free will, grace, causes
    of evil, polemical works against
    Pelagius and his followers (Julian of
    Eclanum)
    ★ Augustine made a lot of his limited
    philosophical background, exploiting
    it with acuity and imagination
    II. AUGUSTINE’S CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY
    ★ Majority were responses to a variety
    of personal, theological, and church
    political circumstances
    ★

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