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Interview: Dr. Catherine Zuckert on Augustine's Confessions | The New Thinkery Ep. 91

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Is the Confessions Artful?

There are scholarly disputes about whether it really is a whole book. The first nine books tell the story of his coming to his conversion, and then a going to africa. Book ten summarizes what he's learned om in a war qisa,. academic, but at any rate, philosophical order. And then book 11 is very famous, particularly n modern times, cause it's an investigation of the meaning of time.

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