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’. One of the world's leading scholars on Augustine as philosopher incisively tackles those thorny issues of skepticism, language-acquisition, mind/body dualism, foreknowledge and free will, faith and reason, the problem of evil, the nature of time, the immorality of lying, what it means to be happy, etc. 160 pages, softcover. Blackwell.