Episode 121: Augustine on Being Good
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2015
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
On The Confessions (400 CE), books 1–9. The question is not "What is virtue?" because knowing what virtue is isn't enough. The problem, for Aurelius Augustinus, aka St. Augustine of Hippo, is doing what you know to be right.
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| 0:42.0 | Our question for episode 121 is something like, |
| 0:45.7 | what's the psychology behind behaviors typically referred to as the scene? |
| 0:50.5 | And we read, say to Augustine's, |
| 0:52.0 | confessions from around the year 480 books 1 through 9. |
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