This work features an orator who is disappointingly ignorant of celestial movements, on whom the author later wrote the tract Against Faustus.
This work features an orator who is disappointingly ignorant of celestial movements, on whom the author later wrote the tract Against Faustus. This work argues that the present is the only truly existent time, though the author cannot explain his sense of what time is. It surmises that nursing infants do not sin by jealously killing others only because they are too weak. This text's protagonist reads the Hortensius, a Cicero dialogue, eleven years before crying at a nameless friend's death on a sickbed. The narrator recalls the teary prayers of his mother Monica and feeds hogs after going with other boys to steal pears on a whim. A turn from Platonism succeeds the author's departure from Carthage's Manicheans in, for 10 points, what autobiography about the slow conversion of Augustine to Christianity?
This work features an orator who is disappointingly ignorant of celestial movements, on whom the author later wrote the tract Against Faustus.
Confessions of Saint Augustine [or Confessiones]