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Saint Augustine
By | January 1, 1970
When I was a graduate student at Cornell, Saint Augustine wasn’t required reading. Years later I became responsible for teaching the Winter quarter of a freshman class at Stanford, where the books were selected from a "Core Reading List". I somewhat reluctantly put Saint Augustine’s Confessions on the list. The structure of the Core List was such that I couldn’t get by with Descartes, Hume and Locke. I set about getting up to speed on Saint Augustine.
What an interesting philosopher he turned out to be! And an
interesting man, too. Set aside his historical importance — the fact
that he above all others brought together the Greek and Hebrew aspects
of Christianity, that his work got Arianism, Pelagianism and
Mannicheanism condemned as heresies, and that, as many think, he is
responsible for many of the more unfortunate aspects of Christianity,
such as the low status of women, the negative attitude towards sex and
other enjoyable bodily […]
Original post by John Perry
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