
Episode 99: The Boy Who Stole Pears (Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-7)
Literature and History
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Augustine's Problem With Neo-Platonism
Augustine's Confessions, book seven, a neo-Platonic quest. He tried to imagine what God was and how could an abstract force of evil exist in opposition to God? By this juncture, Augustine had already decided that astrology was silly. To Augustine, the notion that we are shards of heaven were false.
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