H. Izumi : From Augustine to Anselm

Anselm and Actuality

Philosophy abounds in troublesome modal arguments-endlessly debated, perennially plausible, perennially suspect. The standards of validity for modal reasoning have long been unclear; they become clear only when we provide a semantic analysis of modal logic by reference to possible worlds and to possible things therein.2 Thus insofar as we understand modal reasoning at all, we understand it as d...

Izumi Tabata and Motohiko

St. Augustine (354-430)

St. Augustine [5] began his life in Algeria, an apt student devoted early to the Church and seeking the Truth. His professors recognized his great skill at philosophizing and writing. As Augustine devoured writings both ancient and of his contemporaries, he fell away from the Church and toward a religious dualism sect known as the Manicheans. His mother, a very devoted Christian (later St. Moni...

Augustine and the Philosophers

Because of the immensity of Augustine’s corpus and the complex intellectual patrimony that informs it, attempts to place him within the history of philosophical traditions are often partial and in need of supplementation. In treating below of Augustine’s engagement with Aristotelianism, Middle Platonism, Neoplatonism, and Stoicism, I shall be drawing attention to particular topics, lexical poin...

Particles in the eruption cloud from st. Augustine volcano.

rate of seaward transport. Although the rate of transport out of the estuary depends on the pattern of vertical migration of developing larvae and on the variance and magnitude of residual drift and tidal currents, many larvae are probably displaced seaward during development, each stage moving further toward the mouth of the estuary (14). Any behavior that would increase the magnitude of the u...