Augustine, Confessions | Manichaeism and Faustus | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Augustine of Hippo's work, Confessions, specifically on his engagement with the Gnostic religion of Manichaeism, his dissatisfaction with the answers to important philosophical questions that they provided, and his disappointed hopes in their bishop Faustus
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Your channel is a gold mine. Thank you so much for posting so much content for free. I am reading Confessions now before tackling City of God and this core series has been a most helpful supplement.
@GregoryBSadler
Жыл бұрын
You’re very welcome - glad you’re finding the videos useful
Thank you
@GregoryBSadler
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome
I wonder, did Augustine break the snare, or did the snare let him slip because he could not be enticed by, controlled by, or submit to, the falsehood?
@GregoryBSadler
10 ай бұрын
Perhaps both.
Gnosticism certainly makes sense to me. An all-powerful all-loving "god" wouldn't have created this cesspool of a planet. And Man in his present condition is half animal. Christianity, Islam and Judaism are inherently self-contradictory.
@GregoryBSadler
2 жыл бұрын
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I'd avoid silly hyperbole like sweeping claims about those religions being " inherently self-contradictory", if you want to be taken seriously
@adn8099
Жыл бұрын
Read Ireneaus' "Against Heresies".
@sumerbabylon7069
Жыл бұрын
Yes those religions are all stolen from Sumer then Akkad Babylon so yeah their theology is all false and proven to be stolen. This biological life is evil so a good god wouldn't create this unless it's darkness v.s. light theology it's the ancient Sumerian one god belief. It's obvious Manichaeism was the most hated religion and all of Mani's books are missing and all the Babylonian literature is missing...
@Patriarch.Chadimus
Жыл бұрын
Your claims alone betray your real argumentation, which is seemingly based on emotionalism and your own greivances. It doesn't logically follow that "bad thing happen therefore God not good/God not real".
@UmaROMC
10 ай бұрын
I would like to add that what @darkangelmars said about God applies to Reality just as much.
Unfortunately Augustine mixed some of this Gnostic teachings into Christianity.
@GregoryBSadler
9 ай бұрын
Nah. Good luck with your studies
@jesusistheanswer2074
8 ай бұрын
Why do you say that?
@GregoryBSadler
8 ай бұрын
@@jesusistheanswer2074 Because the comment was silly poorly-informed bullshit. Why are you butting into the conversation?