...William E. Mann Cornell University 2000 DESCARTES AND AUGUSTINE. By Stephen Menn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 415. BOOK REVEWS ticism depends on accepting the thesis that nothing can be known, the magisterial treatment of Academic...

...Judith Wolfe Coyne Ryan , Heidegger's Confessions . Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 2015 . 312 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 Ryan Coyne's monograph on Heidegger and Augustine is clever in both the acclamatory and the critical sense of that word. The book...

.... But it did leave me with questions about the broader history of this debate. Among surely many other places, historical antecedents can be found in the many descriptions of internal conflict in the Confessions (Augustine, 2008). In book 7, Augustine begins by describing his state of mind as he in some...

.... xv þ417 pp. This book contributes to the important discussion of what religious bases there are for liberalism. Contributors to this discussion sometimes look for bases in texts that religious believers regard as perennial sources of wisdom. Eric Greg- ory looks to the works of St. Augustine...

.... Contributors to this discussion sometimes look for bases in texts that religious believers regard as perennial sources of wisdom. Eric Greg- ory looks to the works of St. Augustine. Augustine’s treatment of love can, Greg- ory thinks, be exploited to yield an ethic of liberal citizenship (13). For to live...

.... Contributors to this discussion sometimes look for bases in texts that religious believers regard as perennial sources of wisdom. Eric Greg- ory looks to the works of St. Augustine. Augustine’s treatment of love can, Greg- ory thinks, be exploited to yield an ethic of liberal citizenship (13). For to live...

.... Contributors to this discussion sometimes look for bases in texts that religious believers regard as perennial sources of wisdom. Eric Greg- ory looks to the works of St. Augustine. Augustine’s treatment of love can, Greg- ory thinks, be exploited to yield an ethic of liberal citizenship (13). For to live...

.... xv þ417 pp. This book contributes to the important discussion of what religious bases there are for liberalism. Contributors to this discussion sometimes look for bases in texts that religious believers regard as perennial sources of wisdom. Eric Greg- ory looks to the works of St. Augustine...

.... Contributors to this discussion sometimes look for bases in texts that religious believers regard as perennial sources of wisdom. Eric Greg- ory looks to the works of St. Augustine. Augustine’s treatment of love can, Greg- ory thinks, be exploited to yield an ethic of liberal citizenship (13). For to live...

... concerning the connected idea of will . This notion has not been introduced by Augustine in a sheer break with Ancient thought; quite the contrary, Augustine “does not commit himself to any claims about the will that are inconsistent with the Stoic view of assent” (411). Augustine is rather on the track...

...- tic Highlands: Rodopi, 2002. Pp. xxv, 162. Kant’s Empirical Realism. Oxford Philosophical Monographs. By Paul Abela. New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 2002. Pp. x, 303. On Poetics. By Aristotle. Trans. Seth Benardete and Michael Davis. South Bend: St. Augustine's Press, 2002...

... Democritus to Augustine. New York: Cambridge University Press. xx þ394 pp. Chalmers, David John. 2010. The Character of Consciousness. Philosophy of Mind Series. New York: Oxford University Press. xxvii þ596 pp. Clemens, Justin. 2010. Alain Badiou. Key Concepts. Durham, NC: Acumen. xiii þ207 pp...

.... The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 3 (July 2000) DESCARTES AND AUGUSTXVE. By STEPHEN MENN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 415. Chances are that you have read Descartes s Meditations and Augustine s Confessions and De Libero Arbitm o. Chances are that you have not thought that Descartes s...

... q 2011 by Cornell University 611 BOOKS RECEIVED Deely, John N. 2010. Medieval Philosophy Redefined: The Development of Cenoscopic Science, AD 354 to 1644 (from the Birth of Augustine to the Death of Poinsot). Scranton, PA: University...

.... 2008. Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiii + 616 pp. Hankinson, R. J., ed. 2008. The Cambridge Companion to Galen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xxi + 450 pp. Harding, Brian. 2008. Augustine...

... of a psychological turn. As far as that goes, there’s no medieval author who can compete with Augustine for psychological acuity. And I would have thought that Anselm’s discussion of these issues is also notably rich in this dimension, even though on Hoffmann’s telling Anselm’s discussion proceeds “without entering...

.... Pp. xii, 427. The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology. By Wendy James. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 384. Augustinian-Cartesian Index: Texts and Commentary. By Zbigniew Janowski. South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 275. Subjective Probability...

... McInerny. South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 140. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. 2d. ed. By Robert Audi, ed. Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxxvii, 1001. Selected Philosophical Works. By Francis Bacon. Ed. Rose-Mary Sargent. Indi- anapolis...

... York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. ix, 148. Enthusiasm and Divine Madness: On the Platonic Dialogue Phaedrus. 1964. Re- print. By Josef Pieper. Trans. Richard and Clara Winston. South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 109. Death and Immortality. By Josef Pieper. Trans. Richard and Clara...

... Series. By Sharon M. Kaye and Robert M. Martin. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2001. Pp. vi, 97. On Augustine. Wadsworth Philosophers Series. By Sharon M. Kaye and Paul Thom- son. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2001. Pp. vii, 83. The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion. Indiana...