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100 1 Dutton, Blake D.,|d1962-|eauthor.
245 10 Augustine and academic skepticism :|ba philosophical study
/|cBlake D. Dutton.
264 1 Ithaca ;|aLondon :|bCornell University Press,|c2016.
264 4 |c©2016
300 1 online resource (xv, 273 pages)
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and
index.
505 0 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.
520 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. -- from dust
jacket.
588 0 Print version record.
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650 0 Skepticism.
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