The Cambridge Companion to Augustine

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It is hard to overestimate the importance of the work of Augustine of Hippo and its influence, both in his own period and in the subsequent history of Western philosophy. Many of his views, including his theory of the just war, his account of time and eternity, 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. In this volume of specially-commissioned essays, sixteen scholars provide a wide-ranging and stimulating contribution to our understanding of Augustine. Introduction......Page 13 01 Augustine - his time and lives......Page 20 02 Faith and reason......Page 38 03 Augustine on evil and original sin......Page 52 04 Predestination, Pelagianism, and foreknowledge......Page 61 05 Biblical interpretation......Page 71 06 The divine nature......Page 83 07 De Trinitate (Clark)......Page 103 08 Time and creation in Augustine......Page 115 09 Augustine’s theory of soul......Page 128 10 Augustine on Free Will (Stump)......Page 136 11 Augustine’s philosophy of memory......Page 160 12 The response to skepticism and the mechanisms of cognition......Page 171 13 Knowledge and illumination......Page 183 14 Augustine’s philosophy of language......Page 198 15 Augustine’s ethics......Page 217 16 Augustine’s political philosophy......Page 246 17 Augustine and Medieval Philosophy (Stone)......Page 265 18 Post-medieval Augustinianism......Page 279 19 Bibliography......Page 292