PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Plotinus, Manichaeism, Neoplatonism
10 Sep 2016
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Lecture 6: st. augustine: bishop of hippo (354-430 ad) Half-pagan, half christian (his mom was christian) by birth. Lived a life of luxury, lady"s man, kids out of the wedlock. Later, after meeting ambrose, the bishop of milan, became convinced that the christian teaching had the answer to all of his philosophical and personal inquiries. After he fully embraced christianity, he became the bishop of hippo. Some of his best known works are confessions and the city of god. He was a manichee (supporter of mani"s teaching) at first but then rejected manicheanism. Belief precedes understanding ( unless you believe you shall not understand ) The term is coined by plotinus, a neaplatonist. The great chain of being resembles plato"s world of forms. Main principle at work in the chain: there is one ultimate source of reality and goodness which is self-sufficient and never changing.
