Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- 4 Aversion and Conversion
- 5 Creation and Recreation
- 6 Sin and Concupiscence
- 7 Grace
- 8 God
- 9 Happiness and Friendship
- 10 Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents
- 11 Memory, Eternity, and Time
- 12 Philosophy
- 13 Pride and Humility
- 14 Soul, Self, and Interiority
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
12 - Philosophy
from Part II - Main Themes and Topics
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- 4 Aversion and Conversion
- 5 Creation and Recreation
- 6 Sin and Concupiscence
- 7 Grace
- 8 God
- 9 Happiness and Friendship
- 10 Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents
- 11 Memory, Eternity, and Time
- 12 Philosophy
- 13 Pride and Humility
- 14 Soul, Self, and Interiority
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
This chapter focuses on the metaphilosophy of the “Confessions.” All the places of this work in which Augustine speaks explicitly of philosophy, of the philosophers, and of their writings are taken into consideration. An analysis of these places reveals the way in which Augustine, at the time he wrote his “Confessions,” recalled and judged the role played by philosophy until his baptism at the age of thirty-two.
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