IDS 101: Augustine: Websites and Films

In 430 AD, in the besieged city of Hippo, seventy year-old bishop Augustine recalls his reckless youth, his days as a renowned but dissolute orator, and how after converting to the guilt-free tenets of Manichaeism, he was called to the imperial court in Milan to serve as opponent to the Christian bishop Ambrose...

Rossellini's film focuses on the last part of Augustine's life, concentrating on the turmoil surrounding the collapse of the Roman empire.

Disc 3: Lecture 18 The light within: Augustine on human nature

A biopic of Hannah Arendt, the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist.

A surreal and fanciful biography of the Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who strove to define and teach insights on communication and the powers and limits of language.