Augustine was perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher of Antiquity and certainly the one who exerted the deepest and most lasting influence. Because of his importance for the philosophical tradition of the Middle Ages he is often listed as the first medieval philosopher. ...

Is St Augustine an ancient philosopher?

Augustine (354—430 C.E.) St. Augustine is a fourth century philosopher whose groundbreaking philosophy infused Christian doctrine with Neoplatonism. He is famous for being an inimitable Catholic theologian and for his agnostic contributions to Western philosophy.

How did Plato make Augustine as a philosopher?

Augustine's Neoplatonism

Plato's metaphysics and epistemology shaped Augustine's understanding of God as a source of absolute goodness and truth. This idea mirrored Plato's thinking idea of "forms." For Plato, every entity in the world is a representation of a perfect idea of that entity.