Augustine and academic skepticism a philosophical study
Among the most important, but frequently neglected, figures in the history of debates over skepticism is Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). His early dialogue, Against the Academics, together with substantial material from his other writings, constitutes a sustained attempt to respond to the tradition...
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| Idioma: | Castellano |
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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press
2016
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| Ver en Catálogo Colectivo de las Bibliotecas Agustinianas de España: | http://catalogo.bibliotecasagustinianas.es/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=415178 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Augustine and the academics
- Discrediting academic skepticism as a philosophical practice
- Socrates, the academics and the good life
- Happiness, wisdom, and the insufficiency of inquiry
- The inaction objection
- Inquiry and belief on authority
- The error of the academics
- Vindicating the possibility of knowledge
- The academic denial of the possibility of knowledge
- The apprehensible truths of philosophy
- Platonism and the apprehensible truths of philosophy
- Defense of the senses
- First person truths
