The Socratic Augustine.
Augustine is both one of the great dogmatic thinkers in our Western tradition and also one of the most Socratic. How can that be? I suggest that Augustine is given to puzzling over questions of the form "How is it possible that p ?" - for example, "How is it possible to measure time when no length o...
| Publicado en: | Metaphilosophy Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 196 - 209 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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