Augustine and the Philosophers in Confessions , Book V: A Metaphilosophical Analysis

This article analyses in detail all references to philosophers in Book V of Augustine’s Confessions. The philosophers Augustine refers to are of two types. First, there are astronomers, whose theories seemed much more probable to the narrated Augustine than the Manichaean myths concerning the sun an...

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Main Author: Catapano, Giovanni (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Peeters 2023
In: Augustiniana
Year: 2023, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 323-343
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