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St. Augustine and the Quest for Self-Knowledge | Prof. Michael Foley

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Is There a Hierarchy of Therra?

In the confessions, augustine narrates them in the order in which they happened to him. But that's not an ontological ordering. Andin fact, it may happen sooner, like some some youngster brought up with good habits who didn't blieve that he didn't live the hellian life that augustine did. Um, maybe he has the moral conversion first, or the religious conversion first, and then it's only later in life, when he's attainend cer lectual maturity, that he can have an intellectual conversion.

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