PHIL 799 Augustine's City of God
The course will focus on the City of God both for its own merits and as an introduction to the thought of the mature Augustine. Topics treated will include the rational defence of Christianity, the significance of original sin in ethics, philosophy and "theology", Augustine's attempts to solve the "soul-body" problem, and his recipe for the moral politician and public figure in "this darkness of social life". Dyson's translation will be used.