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Historical View of Augustine (World History: Characterization of Philosophy)
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Paul Jang
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Historical View of Augustine (World History: Characterization of Philosophy)
D. Characterization of Augustine's philosophy of history
(1) Augustine has been regarded as the founder of the Western philosophy of history.
(2) And indeed it was he who first clearly formulated the question of the whence and whither of history.
(3) He expressed this insight in its specifically Christian form:
1) he saw the limited, temporal character of Church and state and formulated the struggle between them.
2) He interpreted the tension of all human existence between true faith and false unbelief on the basis of its historical manifestation.
(4) In respect to particular phenomena, linear uniqueness and cyclic recurrence are hypotheses to be examined and verified.
1) Linear uniqueness of history
2) Cyclic recurrence of history
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Introduction
History 
