On Augustine

Aurelius Augustine [more commonly called “St. Augustine of Hippo”], Christian Neoplatonist, North African Bishop, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church, was born in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria) in 354 and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. One of the decisive developments in the western philosophical tradition was the eventually widespread merging of the Greek philosophical tradition and the Judeo-Christian religious and scriptural traditions. Augustine stands as a giant among men in the development of this monumental feat. In the years between his birth and demise he lived out a career that many view to have bridged the gap between ancient pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages. He was one of the most prolific geniuses that humanity has ever known which traverse the realm of thought. Whereas a thorough treatise on this man of renown is impossible we will settle with the following: a synopsis on his early ...