PHI 150 Lecture 6: 2-13-17 In Class Notes
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Born in thagaste (modern day algeria) in 354 c. e. Dies in hippo in 430, as the vandals lay siege to the city. Teaches in thagaste and carthage (modern day tunis) until he leaves for rome in 383 (he complains of students not paying their fees) Becomes a professor of rhetoric in milan where he encounters the neo-platonism of bishop. Converts to christianity and is baptized by ambrose in 387. Appointed bishop of hippo in 395 where he remains until his death. At 19, augustine become enraptured by reading the works of cicero. As a young teacher in north africa, augustine comes under the influence of a non-christian sect called the manicheans. Manicheans held that there were two eternal principles, darkness and. Light (with the soul being a particle of light trapped in the darkness of the body). Augustine"s later view that evil is not a thing but merely a lack or a privation of good, is a refutation of the.
