The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 121: Augustine on Being Good

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

On The Confessions (400 CE), books 1–9. The question is not "What is virtue?" because knowing what virtue is isn't enough. The problem, for Aurelius Augustinus, aka St. Augustine of Hippo, is doing what you know to be right.

End song: "I Still Want" by New People, from Impossible Things (2011).

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