If Pico were to debate humanism with St. Augustine, on what points would he (Pico) most disagree?

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If Pico were to debate humanism with St. Augustine, on what points would he (Pico) most disagree?

Answer 1

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This article is about the theologian and philosopher, Augustine of Hippo. For his theodicy regarding the problem of evil, see Augustinian theodicy.



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Augustine of Hippo









Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th century.







Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church







Born



November 13, 354

Thagaste, Numidia (now Souk Ahras, Algeria)







Died



August 28, 430 (aged 75)

Hippo Regius, Numidia (now modern-day Annaba, Algeria)







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San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, Pavia, Italy







Feast



August 28 (Western Christianity)

June 15 (Eastern Christianity)

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Attributes



child; dove; pen; shell, pierced heart, holding book with a small church, bishop's staff, miter







Patronage



brewers; printers; theologians

Bridgeport, Connecticut; Cagayan de Oro, Philippines;







Influences



Saint Monica, Plotinus, Ambrose, Anthony the Great, Saint Paul, Cyprian, Plato







Influenced



Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Martin Luther, René Descartes, Cornelius Jansen, Nicolas Malebranche, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Antonio Negri, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saint Bonaventure







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Confessions of St. Augustine

City of God

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Augustine of Hippo (/ɒˈɡʌstɨn/[1][2] or /ˈɔːɡəstɪn/;[2] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis)[3] (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin,[4] St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed,[5] was Bishop of Hippo Regius (present-day Annaba, Algeria). He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province. His writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity.



According to his contemporary, Jerome, Augustine "established anew the ancient Faith".[6] In his early years he was heavily influenced by Manichaeism and afterward by the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.[7] After his conversion to Christianity and baptism (AD 387), Augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and different perspectives.[8] He believed that the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom, and he framed the concepts of original sin and just war.



When the Western Roman Empire was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Church as a spiritual City of God (in a book of the same name), distinct from the material Earthly City.[9] His thoughts profoundly influenced the medieval worldview. Augustine's City of God was closely identified with the church, the community that worshipped God.





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Answer 2

Well considering that Giovanni Pico Della Micandola was a renown humanist and scholar during the Renaissance, and St. Augustine of Hippo was a Church Father during the 4th century they wouldn't have much in common. However, you can compare St. Thomas Aquinas to Giovanni Pico Della Micandola, they shared things in common in fact St. Thomas Aquinas was considered during his time the modern St. Augustine of Hippo. For starters during the Middle Ages when science was closely monitored by the Catholic Church it was St. Thomas Aquinas' teacher and mentor St. Albert the Great who was himself a scientist, philosopher, theologian, and Priest (Bishop), St. Albert the Great taught St. Thomas Aquinas everything he knew about Aristotle, and other famous Eastern Philosophers. Much of what St. Thomas Aquinas based his theology from was the philosophy of Aristotle. Catholics are very unique compared to Protestants because we use both theology and philosophy together, while Protestantism abandoned philosophy altogether.

Answer 3

I don't know about Pico, but I would disagree with Augustine's love affair with the doctrine of eternal conscious torment. Some say he brought on the dark ages with that little "gem."

Answer 4

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle proves that there cannot be such a thing as an "omniscient" entity. Therefore it is a very strong point against the existence of any god. What's more, you can disprove god by contradiction. You do not need to know every particle in the universe to disprove god.