This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour through the life and work of Augustine. Explores new insights into one of antiquity's most important philosophers Topics Include: skepticism, language acquisition, mind-body dualism, philosophical dream problems, time and creation, faith and reason, foreknowledge and free will, and Augustine's standing as a 'Socratic philosopher'.
A very readable introduction to the works of the man who laid the theological basis for the Catholic Church. Although Augustine's Confessions is an oddly modern work, his other treatises are much less easily digested; this books helps to aid in understanding them.