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November 14, 2025 26 mins

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Saint Augustine’s Other Philosophy of History


Thursday 13 November 2024 is the 1,671st anniversary of the birth of Saint Augustine (13 November 354 - 28 August 430), who areas born Aurelius Augustinus in Thagaste, in the province of Numidia, then part of the Roman Empire, now part of Algeria, on this date in 354 AD.


In his monumental City of God Augustine gives us his “big picture” of human history as the history of the City of Man, and how it’s related to the City of God. More than a decade earlier, in his Confessions, written after his conversion to Christianity, Augustine wrestled with similar questions, but pursued them as an inquiry into the nature of time. In this episode I ask whether another Augustinian philosophy of history can be derived from Augustine’s philosophy of time.


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