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PHIL 309

Augustine

3 units

Winter 2023

Topics

  • Welcome & Introduction
  • Situating Augustine
  • The Social Character of Evil
  • Death, Friendship, & the Cosmos
  • Manichaean Dualism & Bottomless Skepticism
  • Neoplatonism & Certitude about Truth

Readings

  • Augustine. Confessions. Translated by Henry Chadwick. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991 (reissued 2008). ISBN: 978-0199537822
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    ISBN 9780199537822
  • Mann, William, ed. Augustine’s Confessions: Critical Essays. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield,
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  • ISBN: 978-0742542327
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    ISBN 9780742542327
Sources