Augustine and academic skepticism [electronic resource] :a philosophical study / Blake D. Dutton.
By: Dutton, Blake D [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Cornell University Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781501703553; 1501703552.Subject(s): Skepticism | Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 189/.2 Online resources: Full text available:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Augustine and the academics -- Discrediting academic skepticism as a philosophical practice -- Socrates, the academics and the good life -- Happiness, wisdom and the insufficiency of inquiry -- The inaction objection -- Inquiry and belief on authority -- The error of the academics -- Vindicating the possibility of knowledge -- The academic denial of the possibility of knowledge -- The apprehensible truths of philosophy -- Platonism and the apprehensible truths of philosophy -- Defense of the senses -- First person truths.
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