Against the academics

Author(s)

• Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
• Foley, Michael P.

Bibliographic Information

Against the academics

Translation, Annotation, and Commentary by Michael P. Foley

（St. Augustine's cassiciacum dialogues, vol. 1）

Yale University Press, 2019

1st edition

Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-299) and index

Translated from Latin

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A fresh, new translation of Augustine's inaugural work as a Christian convert "Lively, engaging and accurate translations. . . . There is much in this dialogue and Foley's presentation of it for contemporary readers to take seriously."-Erik Kenyon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are the remarkable "Cassiciacum dialogues." In this first dialogue, expertly translated by Michael Foley, Augustine and his interlocutors explore the history and teachings of Academic skepticism, which Augustine is both sympathetic to and critical of. The dialogue serves as a fitting launching point for a knowledge of God and the soul, the overall subject of the Cassiciacum tetralogy.

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Details

• NCID: BB29029275
• ISBN:
  • 9780300238518
• LCCN: 2018961156
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: New Haven, CT
• Pages/Volumes: xli, 307 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B655.C62
  • DC23 : 189.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Dialogues
  • LCSH : Philosophy and religion
  • LCSH : Skepticism -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Philosophy and religion ; Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB29027983