{"id":29091,"date":"2021-10-16T10:26:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T15:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29091"},"modified":"2021-10-16T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T15:38:20","slug":"on-saint-augustine-read-by-charlton-heston-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/16\/on-saint-augustine-read-by-charlton-heston-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"On Saint Augustine<\/em> read by Charlton Heston (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI listened to these lectures, er, audio books, out of order–I listened to St. Thomas Aquinas<\/a><\/em> before this couple of cassettes, so I’m going out of order on the history of philosophy (sorry, Father Copleston, but I stalled out on your series years ago). I would probably have gotten more out of the Aquinas lectures reading how much his Aristotle-focus was a counterweight to Augustine’s Christian Platonism.<\/p>\n

Which it is; I know, I just listened to the Teaching Company’s Augustine: Philosopher and Saint<\/a><\/em> last February, so I remembered a bit of historical context–Augustine’s mother’s name was Monica, and he flirted with heretical thought in his youth, and the merging of Platonism with Christian thought.<\/p>\n

You know, as I’m going through these philosophers again with Charlton Heston reading them to me, I think I’m soaking more in. The interplay between the thoughts. Of course, the Aristotle versus Plato bit. I like Augustine’s Platoism, though, amongst all the strains I’ve seen. Its World of Forms is God, and he somehow makes it a personal God as well–as I have mentioned, I need to read the primary sources more, but I’m not sure that I want to get into Professional Philosopher mode, where I spend years studying to split a hair differently than my also-publish-or-perish peers and base my argument on a particular translation which might not really capture exactly what the author meant. I prefer my high level, so that’s kind of what he was thinking<\/em> approach. Where these short lecture series serve me well.<\/p>\n

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