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Augustine of Hippo: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Augustine of Hippo, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• A bishop's memoir of his own sins became one of the first Western autobiographies

  Written around 397-400 AD, Augustine of Hippo's Confessions recounts his restless youth, his years following Manichaeism, and his eventual conversion to Christianity, framed as a d…

  — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

• Augustine solved the problem of evil by arguing evil isn't a thing at all

  If God is all-good and all-powerful, why does evil exist? Augustine's answer, after abandoning the dualist religion of his youth, was that evil has no substance of its own — it's s…

  — Augustine of Hippo, Augustinian theodicy

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