(October 14, 2015 at 11:11 pm)Nestor Wrote: ... I didn't think Augustine came across as an asshole. That would be much more applicable to City of God IMO. ...
It has been a number of years since I read the Confessions, but think about how upset he was about the pears, and think about the way he cast off women when he was done with them. (And sending away his child.) He seems far more upset about the pears, judging by how he goes on and on about them.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
