Freedom’s Progress?: A History of Political Thought, by Gerard Casey “For Augustine,” writes Thomas Cahill, “is the first human being to say ‘I’ – and to mean what we mean today.” So now we know that it was Augustine’s Confessions that Equality 7-2521 (aka “Prometheus”) was reading when he discovered the word “I.” Augustine, born in North Africa in the middle of the fourth century, was – perhaps only after Paul – the most influential writer in Western Christian thought.  Having travelled through Manichaeism and having become a Neo-Platonist, these influences did not leave him when he later became a Christian and was baptized. … Continue reading St. Augustine