augustine of hippo……….how influential was he to western history?
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011Question by Janhoi: augustine of hippo……….how influential was he to western history?
Ive been reading his works confession and city of god, and i must say that he is a pretty good writer, and i heard he wrote at least 40 books during his life time. Ive taken the time to try and look up stuff on him and apparently he developed the concepts of original sin and the just war theory in the church
He seems to have influenced the development of the catholic church a lot, and the reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin quoted him when making their cases. Even modern philosophers seemed to be impressed by him. Agnostic philosopher Bertrand Russel, when commenting on his work Confession said it was “a very admirable relativistic theory of time. … It contains a better and clearer statement than Kant’s of the subjective theory of time – a theory which, since Kant, has been widely accepted among philosophers”.Edmund Husserl, founder of phenomenology states “The analysis of time-consciousness is an age-old crux of descriptive psychology and theory of knowledge. The first thinker to be deeply sensitive to the immense difficulties to be found here was Augustine, who laboured almost to despair over this problem”. Even marxist philosopher Jean Paul Satre seems to have viewed Augustine as pretty influential
So in the development of Western history, how influential do you think Augustine is
Best answer:
Answer by Michaelangelo
St Augustine’s writings have always been the classics of well known universities like Harvard, Oxford, etc.
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