Introduction to the Philosophy of Saint Augustine
Augustine of Hippo
Theology
Selected readings from Saint Augustine with commentary.
Chapters 143
- of our own achievement. Faith is no trifle, but something great; ≈ 4 min
- we are is from God? But what are wood and stones unless they ≈ 4 min
- virtue of which we excel beasts; we ought to refashion and, as it ≈ 4 min
- of the Lord Christ, James and John, were on the mountain with ≈ 4 min
- Peter who speaks thus was a fisherman, and now a rhetorician has ≈ 4 min
- good, filled with Christ, by whose nets cast about the world even ≈ 4 min
- "Let me understand in order to believe" is saying nothing? What ≈ 4 min
- heard the Lord Jesus saying to the father of the boy: If you can ≈ 7 min
- disordered in their haste are they who like immature conceptions ≈ 3 min
- support of those who hope, the evidence of things which are not ≈ 3 min
- as a man, but as an irrational animal . . . God's daily miracles ≈ 35 min
- in religion. For although we grant that it is one thing to believe, ≈ 4 min
- me a reason, that, wherever that shall lead me, I may follow without ≈ 12 min
- in what way may children do service to their parents and love with ≈ 4 min
- easily persuade you of. In a matter of religion, that is, of the wor- ≈ 4 min
- way shall we fools be able to find a wise man, whereas this name, ≈ 4 min
- freedom of the will and the origin of evil or sin. It appears to be ≈ 3 min
- sension that has arisen among men concerning the worship of the ≈ 7 min
- He may be a moderate man after his kind, or he may transgress ≈ 7 min
- So in the human mind the most excellent part is not that which ≈ 4 min
- serving unity and making the whole beautiful. Symmetry demands ≈ 4 min
- they are produced by nature or are worked out by the arts, have ≈ 8 min
- completely achieve the unity they aim at, or fall far short of it, ≈ 4 min
- report nothing to the mind except what they actually see. If'not ≈ 8 min
- can show the beholder nothing but their form, and that they have ≈ 4 min
- true, at least make up your mind whether you have any doubt ≈ 7 min
- we took at the beginning of our former discussion. For believing ≈ 4 min
- it is manifest that God is; next, whether goods, whatsoever their ≈ 4 min
- day bodily senses: seeing, and hearing, and smelling, and tasting, ≈ 2 min
- it the interior sense. But unless it goes beyond what is brought ≈ 6 min
- only the things referred to it by the five senses but also the sensa- ≈ 3 min
- three questions which we proposed a little while ago in arranging ≈ 3 min
- sure, and our earlier investigations have shown that we share it ≈ 4 min
- For I do not ask whether you think it is better, because I have no ≈ 3 min
- 14. A. What if we could find something of which you were sure, ≈ 3 min
- senses are the same as yours, or whether mine are in fact mine ≈ 3 min
- individual suns which we see or moons or morning stars or such ≈ 3 min
- we are saying: that in what touches this matter they neither act ≈ 3 min
- to the senses of the eyes and ears, as regards the question before ≈ 4 min
- perceive, there are some which both, some which each one indi- ≈ 7 min
- unversed in these things. Nevertheless, if some one should say ≈ 4 min
- putably. But you may also easily see that numbers are not derived ≈ 4 min
- one we get two, which comparing with one we find to be its double; ≈ 4 min
- has given an inquiring mind and who are not blinded by obstinacy, ≈ 11 min
- that there is wisdom, or that there are wise men, or that all men ≈ 3 min
- enough that you see as well as I and concede it to be most certain ≈ 3 min
- these two, wisdom and number, are contained in some one genus, ≈ 3 min
- the lowest, and to those placed in the end of things—for all ≈ 4 min
- men and wisdom dear, because they can more easily count than ≈ 4 min
- discussing at such length and in which, single though it be, we ≈ 7 min
- and held secure and that truth is wisdom, let us descry the supreme ≈ 4 min
- truth; and it itself is our God, who frees us from death, that is ≈ 4 min
- touch or taste or smell; and more like it, those that we see and ≈ 19 min
- defend the sentence in the third book of my treatise on Free Will, ≈ 4 min
- the first, or are in the case of each individual specially created, or ≈ 4 min
- not only in my other more hastily published works but also in these ≈ 4 min
- attention. In a passage near the end of Ecclesiastes, where the ≈ 4 min
- God gives to each individual man a soul not propagated from that ≈ 4 min
- created in its own body may not be wholly excluded by this text— ≈ 7 min
- will have to give me much closer attention than you may think ≈ 3 min
- you see me? ≈ 3 min
- quite absurd and foolish if anyone should say that you are acted ≈ 7 min
- do we see everything that we recognize by means of sight? ≈ 3 min
- is yours to serve it. But your defense of the definition is tottering. ≈ 4 min
- if you go slowly rather than hurry. At any rate, give me your com- ≈ 3 min
- applying your added experience to a study of it, correct it. Well, ≈ 4 min
- put it to a test, if you will, to see whether it is not shaky because of ≈ 3 min
- this topic to a man of great learning—not only that, but one of ≈ 3 min
- in the senses, which offer a plainer and clearer understanding of ≈ 3 min
- exclusively. Think of memory, not of things that have become ≈ 4 min
- which goodness and all true worth call their home. Here it is that ≈ 4 min
- stand truth and perfection, is the soul's highest vision: it possesses ≈ 3 min
- of truth, which is the seventh and last level of the soul; and here ≈ 7 min
- third step, knowledge, of which I have now undertaken to treat. ≈ 4 min
- this object shining from afar and has felt that, owing to the weak- ≈ 4 min
- of the manner in which the Godhead was so united with a human ≈ 25 min
- icated to Romanianus the friend of Augustine and was written in ≈ 12 min
- 5. "I would like you," I said, "to tell me briefly what you think ≈ 10 min
- close attention: "Alypius, can it be that we disagree on a matter ≈ 18 min
- this, began, as it were anew. "I shall do as you wish," I said, "al- ≈ 4 min
- against the Stoics especially that the Academics felt called upon to pit ≈ 88 min
- from that body which is seen, but from the body of the living being ≈ 4 min
- they will find no such trouble in this inquiry. Commonly, when ≈ 4 min
- things, although diverse in nature, are tempered together into a ≈ 4 min
- something to say in the preceding books as occasion arose, though ≈ 8 min
- in which spirit is used, that we take the word spiritual to designate ≈ 4 min
- by means of certain likenesses of corporeal objects had not yet the ≈ 4 min
- mind, is on a higher plane. The word intellect, as far as I know, ≈ 4 min
- spiritual, and intellectual, must be considered separately so that the ≈ 4 min
- poreal world and flows through the channels of the five senses, which ≈ 91 min
- (formas) or Natures (species), in order to make it clear that we ≈ 7 min
- from contemplation of eternal things; and the latter is reckoned to ≈ 4 min
- to be a discourse belonging to knowledge, and to be distinguished ≈ 12 min
- and knowledge, that the intellectual cognizance of eternal things be- ≈ 18 min
- way understand the matter, that these things exist in the soul, and ≈ 4 min
- a substance, and knowledge is a substance, and love is a substance; ≈ 4 min
- separated and divided, yet they would not be bodies unless they ≈ 8 min
- corporeal which are drawn in through the bodily sense and in ≈ 4 min
- that darkness, I am shut off as it were from the clear heaven; or ≈ 4 min
- or of the Creator, that is, either of changeable nature or of un- ≈ 131 min
- order that this unformed matter was first made, yet capable of ≈ 3 min
- earth, watering all the surface of the earth." This suggests the ≈ 3 min
- this moment are produced, from those works from which he rested ≈ 114 min
- and that he who lacks one lacks all, reason correctly from the fact ≈ 4 min
- a palpable contrast, as imprudence is the opposite of prudence. But ≈ 4 min
- ground, let us take one case as an example, from which all others ≈ 4 min
- whether where one exists all in like manner exist, or where one ≈ 4 min
- planted by another, as the love of money by the love of praise. ≈ 4 min
- many thousands of the servants of Christ, who, lest they should ≈ 4 min
- refusing to admit that a man who is advancing in wisdom has any ≈ 4 min
- wisdom to air, so that the mind emerging, as it were, from the ≈ 8 min
- relates to holy living, I entertain concerning virtue—virtue is the ≈ 4 min
- not the reason be that the transgression of the law of love is greater ≈ 4 min
- been tedious to you, as you, although approving of the statements ≈ 4 min
- which are to be used, others still which enjoy and use. Those things ≈ 14 min
- look at the matter clearly, because no one ought to love even him- ≈ 200 min
- pagan. His mother Monica (or Monnica) was a Christian. ≈ 2 min
- Madaura, after an idle childhood. Falls into dissipation and ≈ 2 min
- 372-373. Cicero's Hortensius awakens in him a strong desire for ≈ 2 min
- braces Scepticism. Visits Ambrose at Milan. ≈ 2 min
- braces Scepticism. Visits Ambrose at Milan. ≈ 2 min
- braces Scepticism. Visits Ambrose at Milan. ≈ 2 min
- Ambrose. Develops considerable interest in and enthusiasm ≈ 2 min
- Ambrose, but he is held back by the flesh. He becomes again ≈ 2 min
- Platonic rhetorician Victorinus. Studies St. Paul and is con- ≈ 2 min
- Against the Academics, The Happy Life, Divine Providence. ≈ 2 min
- by Ambrose (April 24). ≈ 2 min
- tine remains in Rome. ≈ 2 min
- The Teacher, and Music. ≈ 2 min
- The Teacher, and Music. ≈ 2 min
- the Creed. ≈ 2 min
- the Creed. ≈ 2 min
- III. The Episcopate (396-430) ≈ 2 min
- 403-410. Rigorous repression of the Donatists. ≈ 2 min
- 412. Beginning of the controversies with the Pelagians. ≈ 2 min
- nae Writes six books in refutation of Bishop Julian. ≈ 1 min
- nae Writes six books in refutation of Bishop Julian. ≈ 1 min
- nae Writes six books in refutation of Bishop Julian. ≈ 1 min
- successor. ≈ 1 min
- successor. ≈ 1 min
- Perseverance. ≈ 1 min
- Perseverance. ≈ 1 min
- the Vandals. ≈ 15 min
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | Modern |
| Categories | Theology · Christian Classics |
| Length | 143 chapters · ≈ 21 h 37 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |