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9/19/2015 1:15 pm  #1


Wanted: Sympathetic Analytical Account of Augustine's Metaphysics

Hello everyone,
 
I've recently became interested in Augustine's contribution to medieval and post-medieval accounts of necessity, in particular through his speculation on God's capacity to have created alternative world-histories. Would anyone know of decent overview of his metaphysics which goes into this area in some depth?
 
P.S. In case it should be mentioned: I am aware of Gareth B Mathews’ small Augustine volume but don’t wholly trust the man, so am thus far avoiding it.
 

 

9/19/2015 7:03 pm  #2


Re: Wanted: Sympathetic Analytical Account of Augustine's Metaphysics

DanielCC wrote:

P.S. In case it should be mentioned: I am aware of Gareth B Mathews’ small Augustine volume but don’t wholly trust the man, so am thus far avoiding it.
 

He has a volume in the Argument's of the Philosopher's series which I'm not familiar with, but the series is itself okay and usually thorough (its Hegel book is a glorious misreading, but at least it's thorough, and their Nietzsche book is good):

https://books.google.com/books?id=BkZZBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA73&ots=BbeNFEj-RN&dq=augustine%20on%20necessity&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=augustine%20on%20necessity&f=false

Last edited by iwpoe (9/22/2015 11:29 am)


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