Questions tagged [augustine]
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Verbum vs. nomen
From a semiotics perspective, what's the difference between verbum ("word") and nomen ("noun")?
St. Augustine's De Magistro V.12 grapples with this.
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What is Plotinus' theory (of graduationism) that inspired Augustine about?
I want to know what Plotinus' gradualism is exactly about. I've heard in a lecture about Augustine being inspired by that theory, but can't seem to find anything about this. Is this gradualism just ...
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Did Augustine try to prove God's existence using Set Theory?
Some time ago I heard a professor of mine describe Augustine's Confessions as an attempt to prove God's existence using set theory. I didn't get a chance to ask him more of what he meant, and ...
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Does Gandhi's paraphrase of Augustine's phrase distort its meaning?
His [St. Augustine's] Letter 211 (c. 424) contains the phrase Cum
dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum, which translates roughly to “With
love for mankind and hatred of sins.” The phrase has become ...
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Logical error in Augustinian theodicy
In Confessions, book 7 chapter XII, St. Augustine writes:
If things are sovereignly good, they are incorruptible.
If a thing is corruptable, it contains good.
Evil is either an incorruptible ...
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