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Why Does Evil Exist If God Is Good? | Augustine of Hippo | Complete Philosophy
Why do we do what we know is wrong? Why does nothing ever satisfy us? Augustine of Hippo asked these questions sixteen centuries ago. We are still trying to answer them.
This is the complete philosophy of the thinker who shaped Western thought more than almost any figure after Saint Paul. From his African childhood to the streets of Carthage, from nine years with the Manichaeans to the garden in Milan where everything changed.
We explore his revolutionary ideas: evil as the absence of good, the will divided against itself, time existing only in the mind, memory as a palace larger than the world, and two cities built on two loves that have been at war since the beginning of history.
Augustine was brilliant, passionate, and sometimes wrong. But his questions remain our questions, and his restless heart still speaks to ours.
Chapters
0:00:00 You Have Made Us for Yourself0:08:41 Thagaste and the World of Roman Africa0:16:34 Monica and Patricius, The Mother and the Father0:25:32 Carthage, Pleasure, Ambition, and the Unnamed Woman0:34:48 The Theft of the Pears, Why We Do Wrong0:41:45 The Manichaeans, Light, Darkness, and the Problem of Evil0:49:52 The Hortensius and the Love of Wisdom0:56:42 Milan, Ambrose, the Platonists, and the Crisis1:04:59 The Garden, Tolle Lege1:11:54 Baptism, Monica's Death, and the Return to Africa1:20:11 The Confessions, The Invention of the Self1:27:38 The Problem of Evil, Where Does It Come From?1:34:52 Evil as Privation, The Absence of Good1:41:23 Free Will and the Bondage of the Will1:48:23 Pelagius and the Controversy Over Grace1:54:12 Original Sin, The Inheritance of Adam2:00:36 Predestination, The Terrible Logic2:06:53 What Is Time?2:13:10 Memory, The Vast Palace Within2:18:40 The Sack of Rome and the Two Cities2:24:56 The City of God and the City of Man2:30:39 The Bishop of Hippo, Donatists, Coercion, and the Last Years2:37:07 The Restless Heart That Shaped the West
Music: "Anguish" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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By SleepyPhiloWhy do we do what we know is wrong? Why does nothing ever satisfy us? Augustine of Hippo asked these questions sixteen centuries ago. We are still trying to answer them.
This is the complete philosophy of the thinker who shaped Western thought more than almost any figure after Saint Paul. From his African childhood to the streets of Carthage, from nine years with the Manichaeans to the garden in Milan where everything changed.
We explore his revolutionary ideas: evil as the absence of good, the will divided against itself, time existing only in the mind, memory as a palace larger than the world, and two cities built on two loves that have been at war since the beginning of history.
Augustine was brilliant, passionate, and sometimes wrong. But his questions remain our questions, and his restless heart still speaks to ours.
Chapters
0:00:00 You Have Made Us for Yourself0:08:41 Thagaste and the World of Roman Africa0:16:34 Monica and Patricius, The Mother and the Father0:25:32 Carthage, Pleasure, Ambition, and the Unnamed Woman0:34:48 The Theft of the Pears, Why We Do Wrong0:41:45 The Manichaeans, Light, Darkness, and the Problem of Evil0:49:52 The Hortensius and the Love of Wisdom0:56:42 Milan, Ambrose, the Platonists, and the Crisis1:04:59 The Garden, Tolle Lege1:11:54 Baptism, Monica's Death, and the Return to Africa1:20:11 The Confessions, The Invention of the Self1:27:38 The Problem of Evil, Where Does It Come From?1:34:52 Evil as Privation, The Absence of Good1:41:23 Free Will and the Bondage of the Will1:48:23 Pelagius and the Controversy Over Grace1:54:12 Original Sin, The Inheritance of Adam2:00:36 Predestination, The Terrible Logic2:06:53 What Is Time?2:13:10 Memory, The Vast Palace Within2:18:40 The Sack of Rome and the Two Cities2:24:56 The City of God and the City of Man2:30:39 The Bishop of Hippo, Donatists, Coercion, and the Last Years2:37:07 The Restless Heart That Shaped the West
Music: "Anguish" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/