LEADER 03582nam 22005655 450 001 9910798329303321 005 20220415021341.0 010 $a1-5017-0354-4 010 $a1-5017-0355-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501703553 035 $a(CKB)3710000000725086 035 $a(EBL)4556229 035 $a(OCoLC)951625897 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001678954 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16488917 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001678954 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14788597 035 $a(PQKB)11012289 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510553 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4556229 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51393 035 $a(DE-B1597)478245 035 $a(OCoLC)979882441 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501703553 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000725086 100 $a20190708d2016 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAugustine and Academic Skepticism $eA Philosophical Study /$fBlake D. Dutton 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8014-5293-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Augustine and the Academics --$tPart I. Discrediting Academic Skepticism as a Philosophical Practice --$t2. Socrates, the Academics, and the Good Life --$t3. Happiness, Wisdom, and the Insufficiency of Inquiry --$t4. The Inaction Objection --$t5. Inquiry and Belief on Authority --$t6. The Error of the Academics --$tAfterword to Part I --$tPart II. Vindicating the Possibility of Knowledge --$t7. The Academic Denial of the Possibility of Knowledge --$t8. The Apprehensible Truths of Philosophy --$t9. Platonism and the Apprehensible Truths of Philosophy --$t10. Defense of the Senses --$t11. First-Person Truths --$tAfterword to Part II --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAmong the most important, but frequently neglected, figures in the history of debates over skepticism is Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). His early dialogue, Against the Academics, together with substantial material from his other writings, constitutes a sustained attempt to respond to the tradition of skepticism with which he was familiar. This was the tradition of Academic skepticism, which had its home in Plato's Academy and was transmitted to the Roman world through the writings of Cicero (106-43 BCE). Augustine and Academic Skepticism is the first comprehensive treatment of Augustine's critique of Academic skepticism. In clear and accessible prose, Blake D. Dutton presents that critique as a serious work of philosophy and engages with it precisely as such.While Dutton provides an extensive review of Academic skepticism and Augustine's encounter with it, his primary concern is to articulate and evaluate Augustine's strategy to discredit Academic skepticism as a philosophical practice and vindicate the possibility of knowledge against the Academic denial of that possibility. In doing so, he sheds considerable light on Augustine's views on philosophical inquiry and the acquisition of knowledge. 606 $aSkepticism 615 0$aSkepticism. 676 $a189/.2 700 $aDutton$b Blake D.$01542383 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798329303321 996 $aAugustine and Academic Skepticism$93795107 997 $aUNINA