JLC-110 FA2 Lecture 6: WLT 9/20 Augustine
5 Oct 2016
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Socrates: 469 bc - 399 bc (70 years old when he died) Plato: 428 bc -347 bc (was 29 years old when socrates died) Aristotle: 384 bc - 322 bc (socrates died 15 years before aristotle was born) Augustine: 354 ad - 430 ad (was born 676 years after aristotle died) Aquinas: 1225 ad - 1274 ad (was born 795 years after augustine died) Aristotle was a student at plato"s academy (model for modern western education) for twenty years, plato did not turn over the academy to aristotle when he died. Around time of aristotle"s death, roman republic comes to power. Caesar was assassinated in 44 bc and roman empire begins steady decline. Jesus is born in 1st century ad and is killed around the age of 33. Augustine is at the intersection of christianity, philosophy and politics and writes during the collapse of the roman empire.
