ABSTRACT

First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. This volume observes Augustine from a stance outside that Christian theological tradition, the author’s stance of an analytic philosopher and who knows something of Augustine’s Greek predecessors in philosophy but not much of his medieval or renaissance successors.

chapter I|11 pages

Life and works

chapter II|16 pages

Against the sceptics

chapter III|20 pages

The nature of speech

chapter IV|17 pages

God and bad

chapter V|17 pages

Defending free will

chapter VI|20 pages

Free will at bay

chapter VII|17 pages

First and last things

chapter VIII|13 pages

Meditations on beginnings

chapter IX|16 pages

More meditations on time

chapter X|17 pages

A priestly life

chapter XI|12 pages

Christian society