PhilosophersAugustin d'Hippone

Augustin d'Hippone

Believe to understand: God in the innermost self.

Augustinianism · Neoplatonism354 – 430 AlgeriaPhilosopher and theologianChristian PlatonistBishop of HippoThinker of the inner self

Inspirations

Platon the "books of the Platonists"

PlotinNeoplatonism, evil as lack

Cicéron the Hortensius, which awakened him to philosophy

Ambroise de Milanthe bishop who baptised him

Maniagainst the two principles, Good and Evil

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Les sceptiques de l'Académieagainst universal doubt

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Heirs

Thomas d'Aquin evil as privation, eternal law

Martin Luthergrace, the bondage of the will

Pascal the heart, grace, Jansenism

Descartes "if I am deceived, I am"

Leibniz theodicy

Ludwig Wittgenstein opens his Investigations by criticising his view of language

Hannah Arendther thesis on love in Augustine

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Closest

Anselme de Cantorbéry God is 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived': so he cannot exist in thought alone.

Bonaventure A world without a beginning is impossible: the infinite can neither be added to nor traversed to the end.

G. K. Chesterton Before clearing away a fence whose use you cannot see, find out why it was put there.

Martin Luther King Jr. Minister and leader of the civil rights movement: he defends nonviolent disobedience to unjust laws, openly and accepting the penalty.

Furthest

Richard Rorty Talk of sensations might one day disappear, replaced by the language of neuroscience.

Rudolf Carnap Member of the Vienna Circle: a statement that can be neither verified nor reduced to a rule of logic has no meaning, and metaphysics is full of them.