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Augustine and Academic Skepticism - A Philosophical Study (Hardcover)
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Augustine and Academic Skepticism - A Philosophical Study (Hardcover)
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Among the most important, but frequently neglected, figures in the
history of debates over skepticism is Augustine of Hippo (354–430
CE). His early dialogue, Against the Academics, together with
substantial material from his other writings, constitutes a
sustained attempt to respond to the tradition of skepticism with
which he was familiar. This was the tradition of Academic
skepticism, which had its home in Plato's Academy and was
transmitted to the Roman world through the writings of Cicero
(106–43 BCE). Augustine and Academic Skepticism is the first
comprehensive treatment of Augustine’s critique of Academic
skepticism. In clear and accessible prose, Blake D. Dutton presents
that critique as a serious work of philosophy and engages with it
precisely as such.While Dutton provides an extensive review of
Academic skepticism and Augustine’s encounter with it, his
primary concern is to articulate and evaluate Augustine’s
strategy to discredit Academic skepticism as a philosophical
practice and vindicate the possibility of knowledge against the
Academic denial of that possibility. In doing so, he sheds
considerable light on Augustine’s views on philosophical inquiry
and the acquisition of knowledge.
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