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Record Nr.

UNISA996205068803316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Augustine / / edited by Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-139-81597-0

1-139-00029-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Disciplina

189/.2

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Augustine: his time and lives / James J. O'Donnell -- Faith and reason / John Rist -- Augustine on evil and original sin / William E. Mann -- Predestination, pelagianism, and foreknowledge / James Wetzel -- Biblical interpretation / Thomas Williams -- The divine nature / Scott MacDonald -- De Trinitate / Mary T. Clark -- Time and creation in Augustine / Simo Knuuttila -- Augustine's theory of soul / Roland Teske -- Augustine on free will / Eleonore Stump -- Augustine's philosophy of memory / Roland Teske -- The response to skepticism and the mechanisms of cognition / Gerard O'Daly -- Knowledge and illumination / Gareth B. Matthews -- Augustine's philosophy of language / Christopher Kirwan -- Augustine's ethics / Bonnie Kent -- Augustine's political philosophy / Paul Weithman -- Augustine and medieval philosophy / M.W.F. Stone -- Post-medieval Augustinianism / Gareth B. Matthews.

Sommario/riassunto

It is hard to overestimate the importance of the work of Augustine of Hippo, both in his own period and in the subsequent history of Western philosophy. Until the thirteenth century, when he may have had a competitor in Thomas Aquinas, he was the most important philosopher of the medieval period. Many of his views, including his theory of the just war, his account of time and eternity, his understanding of the will, his attempted resolution of the problem of evil, and his approach to the relation of faith and reason, have continued to be influential up to the present time. In this 2001 volume of specially-commissioned essays,



sixteen scholars provide a wide-ranging and stimulating contribution to our understanding of Augustine, covering all the major areas of his philosophy and theology.