Augustine

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Evans — A History of Western Philosophy

• A History of Western Philosophy - C Stephen Evans — Chapter 7 - Early Christian Thought Through Augustine (heading contains links, so it can’t be anchored; search the title inside the note)

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• Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds - Peter Adamson — Chapter 47 — Life and Time: Augustine’s Confessions (heading contains links, so it can’t be anchored; search the title inside the note)
• Chapter 48 — Papa Don’t Teach: Augustine on Language
• Chapter 50 — Heaven and Earth: Augustine’s City of God

📚 Connected Book Sections

• Restlessness and the desire for God
• The pear theft: disordered love and counterfeit freedom
• Intellectual humility, testimony, and faith
• Conversion and the divided will
• Time, memory, and the present

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Biography

73c91c226d44fa9bc24d80e7ce86e31d_MD5.jpg (image unavailable) Saint Augustin by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645
Bishop of Hippo Regius Doctor of the Church
Born	Aurelius Augustinus 13 November 354 Thagaste, Numidia Cirtensis, Roman Empire
Died	28 August 430 (aged 75) Hippo Regius, Numidia Cirtensis, Western Roman Empire
Resting place	Pavia, Italy
Venerated in	All Christian denominationswhich venerate saints
Canonized	Pre-Congregation
Major shrine	San Pietro in Ciel d’Oro, Pavia, Italy
Feast	- 28 August (Latin Church, Western Christianity) - 15 June (Eastern Christianity) - 4 November (Assyrian)
Attributes	Crozier, mitre, young child, book, small church, flaming or pierced heart.1(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-1)
Patronage	- Brewers - Printers - Theologians - Philosophers - Sore eyes - Bridgeport, Connecticut - Cagayan de Oro - San Agustin, Isabela - Mendez, Cavite - Tanza, Cavite - Baliwag, Bulacan - Iba, Zambales
--- Philosophy career
Notable work	- [Confessions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions(Augustine) “Confessions (Augustine)”) - On Christian Doctrine - On the Trinity - The City of God_
Era	- Ancient philosophy - Medieval philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	- Augustinianism
Notable students	Paul Orosius19(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-FOOTNOTENguyenPrior201466-19) Prosper of Aquitaine
Main interests	- Christian anthropology - Biblical criticism - Epistemology - Ethics - Metaphysics - Pedagogy - Philosophy of religion - Theodicy - Theology
Notable ideas	- Filioque2(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-FOOTNOTESiecienski2010-2) - Original sin3(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-3) - Free will - Augustinian predestination - Just war theory - Absence of good4(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-4) - Concupiscence5(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenblatt2017-5) - Sacramental character6(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyan1908-6) - Augustinian hypothesis7(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-7) - Augustinian theodicy - Augustinian values8(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEsmeraldan.d.-8) - Divine command theory9(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAustin2006-9) - Amillennialism - You are Christ10(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-10) - Deity11(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-11) - Solvitur ambulando12(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHuffington2013-12) - Heroic virtue13(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilhelm1910-13) - Incurvatus in se14(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJenson2006-14) - Genesis as an allegory15(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-15)[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-16) - Divine illumination - Theocentricism17(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDemacopoulosPapanikolaou2008271-17) - Limbo18(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-18)

Life

• According to his contemporary, Jerome, Augustine “established anew the ancient Faith”.
• In his youth he was drawn to the Manichaean faith, and later to the Hellenistic philosophy of Neoplatonism. After his conversion to Christianity and baptism in 386, Augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and perspectives.
• Augustine is the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, and a number of cities and dioceses.

Impact on Philosophy

• His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period.
• Augustine was one of the first Christian ancient Latin authors with a very clear vision of theological anthropology.

Concepts

• Believing the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom, he helped formulate the doctrine of original sin and made significant contributions to the development of just war theory.
• The segment of the Church that adhered to the concept of the Trinity as defined by the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Constantinopleclosely identified with Augustine’s On the Trinity.

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