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Gareth B. Matthews

In H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer. pp. 125--131 (2011)

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Das Böse an Augustinus’ Birnendiebstahl.Hans Bernhard Schmid - 2019 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (4):517-538.details In the second book of theConfessions, Augustine flabbergasts his interpreters by exaggerating an adolescent escapade (a pear theft) and making it a monstrosity. He conjectures that the pear thieves might have commited the theft purely for the sake of thieving, and thus, that they displayed a kind of evil that is not even presented by the arch-villain of Ciceronian antiquity, the conspirer Catilina. Following Aquinas’ interpretation this comparison has been considered a reductio in most of the relevant literature up to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
The Guise of the Bad in Augustine’s Pear Theft.Hans Bernhard Schmid - 2018 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (1):71-89.details In the second book of his Confessions, Augustine of Hippo presents his famous juvenile Pear Theft as an apparent case of acting under the guise of the bad. At least since Thomas Aquinas’ influential interpretation, scholars have usually taken Augustine’s detailed discussion of the case to be dispelling this “guise of the guise of the bad”, and to offer a solid “guise of the good”-explanation. This paper addresses an important challenge to this view: Augustine offers two different “guise of the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
The Kantian versus Frankfurt.Alex Blum - 2000 - Analysis 60 (3):287-288.details Download Export citation Bookmark 22 citations
Scanlon and the claims of the many versus the one.Michael Otsuka - 2000 - Analysis 60 (3):288-293.details In "What We Owe to Each Other", T. M. Scanlon argues that one should save the greater number when faced with the choice between saving one life and two or more different lives. It is, Scanlon claims, a virtue of this argument that it does not appeal to the claims of groups of individuals but only to the claims of individuals. I demonstrate that this argument for saving the greater number, indeed, depends, contrary to what Scanlon says, upon an appeal (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 50 citations
Reasons and Impossibility.Bart Streumer - 2007 - Philosophical Studies 136 (3):351-384.details Many philosophers claim that it cannot be the case that a person ought to perform an action if this person cannot perform this action. However, most of these philosophers do not give arguments for the truth of this claim. In this paper, I argue that it is plausible to interpret this claim in such a way that it is entailed by the claim that there cannot be a reason for a person to perform an action if it is impossible that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 77 citations
Augustine’s Master Argument for the Incorporeality of the Mind.Tamer Nawar - 2022 - Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2):422-440.details In De Trinitate 10, Augustine offers an argument that seemingly proceeds from certain premises about self-knowledge to the conclusion that the mind is incorporeal. Although the argument has sometimes been compared to later Cartesian arguments, it has received relatively little philosophical attention. In this paper, I offer a detailed analysis and original interpretation of Augustine's argument and argue that it is not vulnerable to some of the main objections which have been raised against it. I go on to argue that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Walter chatton.Rondo Keele & Jenny Pelletier - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.details Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations

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