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Augustine:
Augustine:
Philosopher and Saint
Professor Phillip Cary
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Phillip Cary, Ph.D.
Eastern College
Prof. Phillip Cary is Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern College, as well as Scholar in Residence at the
Templeton Honors College at Eastern College in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate training
in Philosophy at Washington University (MO) and earned his Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Religion at Yale
University, where he studied under Professor George Lindbeck. He has previously taught at Yale University, the
University of Hartford and the University of Connecticut. He was the George Ennis Post-Doctoral Fellow at
Villanova University, where he taught in Villanova’s nationally acclaimed Core Humanities program. He has
published several scholarly articles on Augustine, the doctrine of the Trinity and interpersonal knowledge. His
book,
Augustine
’
s Invention of the Inner Self
is due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2000. Professor
Cary produced the popular Teaching Company course,
Augustine: Philosopher and Saint.
©1997 The Teaching Company Limited Partnership
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A Note on Citations
Because there are so many different editions of Augustine, Plato, and Plotinus, references to their writings in the
"Readings" for each lecture do not use page numbers (which would be different for each edition) but a standard
reference system.
For
Augustine
, the citations refer to book number (if there is one) then chapter number, then paragraph number (if
there is one). For example, "
Confessions
7:10.16" means
Confessions
, book 7, chapter 10, paragraph 16. (In most of
Augustine's treatises, the paragraphs are numbered from the beginning of each book not the beginning of each
chapter; therefore you seldom get a reference like 7:5.1, but you often get a reference like 3:1.1—or even 3:2.2 if
the paragraphs and chapters coincide, which they sometimes do.) Some editions don't number the paragraphs; so if
you're using the Hackett edition of the
Confessions
, for example, you should ignore the number 16 in the above
reference and just look for book 7, chapter 10. Also, be aware that if you're using the
Nicene and Post-Nicene
Fathers
series, the editor of the anti-Pelagian works in that series calls the paragraphs "chapters," so that a reference
to
On the Spirit and the Letter
29.50 refers to what that edition labels
chapter
50.
For
Plato
, citations refer to marginal page numbers. Most editions of Plato's dialogues should have these standard
page numbers printed at the side or in the margin of the text.
For
Plotinus
, citations are by book and treatise.
Enneads
(pronounced "N-E-ads") is the name of Plotinus's
collected works. Each
Ennead
is one treatise. There are fifty-four of them grouped into six books, with nine treatises
in each book. (
Ennead
is Greek for "group of nine," as
quartet
is English for "group of four.") Thus, for example,
Enneads
1:6, Plotinus's treatise "On Beauty," is the sixth
Ennead
or treatise in the first book of the collection. All
modern editions divide the treatises up into paragraphs, so if you read much about Plotinus you will start seeing
citations like "
Enneads
1:6.8," which means paragraph 8 of the treatise "On Beauty."
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Professor Biography ...........................................................................................1
A Note on Citations ............................................................................................2
Course Scope and Objectives ............................................................................4
Lecture 1: Church Father..................................................................................5
Lecture 2: Christian Platonist ...........................................................................7
Lecture 3:
Confessions
: The Search for Wisdom.............................................9
Lecture 4:
Confessions
: Love and Tears.........................................................12
Lecture 5:
Confessions
: The Road Home .......................................................15
Lecture 6: Augustine's Career as a Christian Writer ...................................18
Lecture 7: Faith, Love, and Grace ..................................................................20
Lecture 8: Evil, Free Will, Original Sin, and Predestination .......................23
Lecture 9: Signs and Sacraments ....................................................................26
Lecture 10: The Inner Self ...............................................................................29
Lecture 11: The Trinity and the Soul .............................................................31
Lecture 12: The City of God............................................................................34
Timeline .............................................................................................................37
Glossary .............................................................................................................39
Biographical Notes............................................................................................44
Bibliography......................................................................................................45
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Augustine: Philosopher and Saint
Scope:
In this lecture series we examine the life, works, and significance of Augustine, the most influential Christian writer
outside of the Bible. We look at him both as Church Father (interpreter of the Bible and teacher of Christian
doctrine) and philosopher (one who has given us new concepts of the human heart and its depths). After an
introductory look at these two contexts of his work (i.e., as Church Father in lecture 1 and as Christian Platonist
philosopher in lecture 2) the series proceeds in three parts.
The first four lectures are devoted to a study of Augustine's life. We look at the
Confessions
, his great spiritual
autobiography, from three angles: an
intellectual
angle (spotlighting his passionate search for truth), an
emotional
angle (focusing on the love that drives this search, and the aching sense of loss, grief, and yearning the
Confessions
evokes in order to show how love can go wrong), and a
religious
angle (in which the search for truth leads him to
Christ, and the Christian life is conceived of as a journey toward our heavenly home). We then survey Augustine's
life following the events narrated in the
Confessions
, especially his career as a Christian writer.
Next a series of three lectures explains key concepts of Augustine's thought, all related to his epochal doctrine of
grace. We examine how Augustine relates the human qualities of Faith and love to the divine gift of grace (in
lecture 7); how his doctrine of grace addresses troublesome issues like the origin of evil, Original Sin, and
predestination (in lecture 8); and how he relates the inward gift of grace to the external side of human life in his
teachings about signs, words, sacraments, and the Church (in lecture 9).
The final three lectures address Augustine's concept of persons, both human and divine. We look at Augustine's
distinctive concept of the human soul as a private inner world (lecture 10), then at his distinctive way of relating his
concept of the soul to the doctrine of the Trinity, which is the orthodox Christian concept of God (lecture 11), and
finally at his understanding of God's relationship to specific human communities in history (lecture 12).
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of these lectures, the student should be able to:
1.
Describe the relation of philosophy to Christian doctrine in Augustine's thought.
2.
Explain why, for Augustine, love is inseparable from the life of the intellect (and vice versa).
3.
Discuss how sin would make you feel if you were in Augustine's shoes.
4.
Explain what religion has to do with happiness, according to Augustine.
5.
Explain why Augustine came to believe in both free will and predestination and why he thought they were
not inconsistent with each other.
6.
Explain what Augustine thinks evil is and where he believes it comes from.
7.
Discuss the relation of inner and outer in Augustine's thought.
8.
State the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity.
9.
Discuss at least two problems with or objections to Augustine's thought and how Augustine might try to
solve them.
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