Medieval · AD 354–430
Who influenced Augustine of Hippo?
Influences and legacy
Fused Platonism with Christianity; memory, time, and will were never the same.
Augustine of Hippo was influenced by Plato, Tertullian and Plotinus, and went on to influence John Scotus Eriugena, Anselm of Canterbury, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Ramon Llull, René Descartes and 2 others. That is 11 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Augustine of Hippo?
Born in Thagaste in Roman North Africa, Augustine was drawn in his youth to Manichaeism and then to Neoplatonism, before Ambrose baptised him a Christian in 386. As Bishop of Hippo Regius he became one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin West. His Confessions is the first Western autobiography.
Known as the Doctor of Grace, he argued that salvation needs unmerited grace and shaped the doctrine of original sin. Writing as the Western Roman Empire fell, he set the spiritual City of God against the Earthly City, and he contributed to just war theory. He was the author most cited in Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, and many Protestants count him among the fathers of the Reformation.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Augustine of Hippo?
3 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Tertullian c. 155–220
- Plotinus AD 204–270
Who did Augustine of Hippo influence?
8 thinkers on this map draw directly on Augustine of Hippo.
- John Scotus Eriugena c. 815–877
- Anselm of Canterbury 1033–1109
- Robert Grosseteste c. 1175–1253
- Bonaventure 1221–1274
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
- Ramon Llull c. 1232–1315
- Julian of Norwich c. 1342–1416
- René Descartes 1596–1650
The line of teachers behind Augustine of Hippo
The longest documented line of influence ending at Augustine of Hippo runs 10 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Augustine of Hippo
Indirect influences
- Through Plato: Pythagoras, Parmenides, Empedocles, Protagoras, Socrates, Philolaus
- Through Tertullian: Seneca, Irenaeus
- Through Plotinus: Aristotle
The second generation
- Through René Descartes: Thomas Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, John Locke, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Through John Scotus Eriugena: Nicholas of Cusa
- Through Anselm of Canterbury: Peter Lombard
- Through Robert Grosseteste: Roger Bacon
- Through Bonaventure: Duns Scotus
Contemporaries of Augustine of Hippo
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Augustine of Hippo, with no direct line between them.
- Hypatia c. 355–415
- Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–395
- Synesius of Cyrene c. 373–414
Augustine of Hippo by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 3
- Direct followers
- 8 — #8 of 279 on this map
- Thinkers upstream
- 23
- Thinkers downstream
- 147
- Wikipedia languages
- 164 — #1 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Legendary
Schools and lineages
- Church Fathers: Origen, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Augustine of Hippo, Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, John of Damascus
Questions about Augustine of Hippo
- Who influenced Augustine of Hippo?
- Plato, Tertullian and Plotinus.
- Who did Augustine of Hippo influence?
- John Scotus Eriugena, Anselm of Canterbury, Robert Grosseteste, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Ramon Llull, Julian of Norwich and René Descartes.
- When did Augustine of Hippo live?
- AD 354–430. The map files Augustine of Hippo under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Augustine of Hippo card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Augustine of Hippo in 164 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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