Episode 121: Augustine on Being Good - a podcast by Mark Linsenmayer

from 2015-08-10T12:00:43

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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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