The Fireplace Philosopher

Episode 002 · Late antique · Faith and Reason

Augustine

A boy who stole pears he did not want, and the man who later asked what time is, where evil comes from, and how to live.

1h 38m. Click a chapter to jump to it.

Chapters

  1. 00:00 Chapter 1. Thagaste and Carthage
  2. 11:56 Chapter 2. Nine Years in the Dark
  3. 22:22 Chapter 3. Rome, Milan, Ambrose
  4. 31:54 Chapter 4. The Garden
  5. 39:51 Chapter 5. Ostia
  6. 46:16 Chapter 6. What Is Time
  7. 56:03 Chapter 7. The Shape of Evil
  8. 1:04:10 Chapter 8. Two Wills, Two Loves
  9. 1:12:02 Chapter 9. Compel Them to Come In
  10. 1:18:32 Chapter 10. What Is Passed Down
  11. 1:25:03 Chapter 11. A Sentence Before Descartes
  12. 1:30:49 Chapter 12. Hippo Under Siege

What this episode does differently

It gives his own account as his own, names where scholars disagree, and does not look away from the harder chapters, including his case for compelling the Donatists.