Eight new essays examine key philosophical issues raised by Augustine in his Confessions¿a masterpiece of world literature. They explore a range of topics including what constitutes the happy or blessed life, the role of philosophical perplexity in the search for truth, and the problems that arise in the attempt to understand minds.
Eight new essays examine key philosophical issues raised by Augustine in his Confessions¿a masterpiece of world literature. They explore a range of topics including what constitutes the happy or blessed life, the role of philosophical perplexity in the search for truth, and the problems that arise in the attempt to understand minds.
William E. Mann received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. Having previously taught at St. Olaf College and Illinois State University, he is now the Marsh Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Vermont. He specializes in Medieval Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion, and has published extensively in these fields.
Inhaltsangabe
* Contributors * Abbreviations * Introduction * 1.: Peter King: Augustine's Anti-Platonic Ascents * 2.: Tomas Ekenberg: Practical Rationality and the Wills of Confessions VIII * 3.: Nicholas Wolterstorff: Happiness in Augustine's Confessions * 4.: Stephen Menn: The Desire for God and the Aporetic Method in Augustine's Confessions * 5.: William E. Mann: The Life of the Mind in Dramas and Dreams * 6.: Paul Helm: Thinking Eternally * 7.: Blake D. Dutton: The Privacy of the Mind and the Fully Approvable Reading of Scripture: Augustine on Genesis 1:1 * 8.: Christian Tornau: Intelligible Matter and the Genesis of Intellect: The Metamorphosis of a Plotinian Theme in Confessions XII-XIII * Index
* Contributors * Abbreviations * Introduction * 1.: Peter King: Augustine's Anti-Platonic Ascents * 2.: Tomas Ekenberg: Practical Rationality and the Wills of Confessions VIII * 3.: Nicholas Wolterstorff: Happiness in Augustine's Confessions * 4.: Stephen Menn: The Desire for God and the Aporetic Method in Augustine's Confessions * 5.: William E. Mann: The Life of the Mind in Dramas and Dreams * 6.: Paul Helm: Thinking Eternally * 7.: Blake D. Dutton: The Privacy of the Mind and the Fully Approvable Reading of Scripture: Augustine on Genesis 1:1 * 8.: Christian Tornau: Intelligible Matter and the Genesis of Intellect: The Metamorphosis of a Plotinian Theme in Confessions XII-XIII * Index
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