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Augustine: Soliloquies and Immortality of the Soul (Classical Texts Series)
Augustine
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Augustine intended the Soliloquies and the Immortality of the Soul to form a single book. For those who are unacquainted with Augustine, it is a good book with which to begin. It deals, as he says, with those matters about which he most wanted to know at this time, i.e. between his conversion in the summer of 386 and his baptism at Easter, 387. The matters are the primacy of mind over things of sense, and the immortality of the soul. These central tenets of Neoplatonism are not simply theoretical questions for Augustine. He had been through a period of ... Read more
Augustine intended the Soliloquies and the Immortality of the Soul to form a single book. For those who are unacquainted with Augustine, it is a good book with which to begin. It deals, as he says, with those matters about which he most wanted to know at this time, i.e. between his conversion in the summer of 386 and his baptism at Easter, 387. The matters are the primacy of mind over things of sense, and the immortality of the soul. These central tenets of Neoplatonism are not simply theoretical questions for Augustine. He had been through a period of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856685064
SKU
V9780856685064
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99-50
About Augustine
†Gerard Watson was Professor of Ancient Classics at Maynooth College, Ireland. His other books include The Stoic Theory of Knowledge (Belfast, 1966), Plato's Unwritten Teaching (Dublin, 1973) and Phantasia in Classical Thought (Galway, 1988).
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