Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on translations and references
- Chronological table of Augustine's writings
- List of abbreviations and texts
- Introduction: Augustine's conversion to Christianity
- PART I THE WAY OF AUTHORITY AND ‘THE FALSITY OF PHOTINUS’
- PART II THE WAY OF REASON AND THE ASCENT OF THE SOUL
- 3 The way of reason
- 4 The problem of evil and the development of Augustine's metaphysics
- 5 The graded ascent
- 6 The rejection of Platonic ascent
- 7 The Ostia ascent
- Conclusion: Augustine the Porphyrian
- Appendix: true and false in Soliloquies II
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The graded ascent
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on translations and references
- Chronological table of Augustine's writings
- List of abbreviations and texts
- Introduction: Augustine's conversion to Christianity
- PART I THE WAY OF AUTHORITY AND ‘THE FALSITY OF PHOTINUS’
- PART II THE WAY OF REASON AND THE ASCENT OF THE SOUL
- 3 The way of reason
- 4 The problem of evil and the development of Augustine's metaphysics
- 5 The graded ascent
- 6 The rejection of Platonic ascent
- 7 The Ostia ascent
- Conclusion: Augustine the Porphyrian
- Appendix: true and false in Soliloquies II
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Augustine's Intellectual ConversionThe Journey from Platonism to Christianity, pp. 183 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009