| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 214 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index. |
| Contents |
The kinship of soul and Platonic form -- Identity from Aristotle to Plotinus -- Augustine reads Plotinus -- Problems of Christina Platonism -- Inward turn and intellectual vision -- Explorations of divine reason -- An abandoned proof -- Change of mind -- Inner privacy and fallen embodiment -- The origin of inner space. |
| Summary |
Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented or created the concept of self as an inner space-as space into which one can enter and in which one can find God. This concept of inwardness, says Cary, has worked its way deeply into the intellectual heritage of the West and many Western individuals have experienced themselves as inner selves. After surveying the idea of inwardness in Augustine's predecessors, Cary offers a re-examination of Augustine's own writings, making the controversial point that in his early writings Augustine appears to hold that the human soul is quite literally divine. Cary goes on to contend that the crucial Book 7 of the Confessions is not a historical report of Augustine's "conversion" experience, but rather an explanation of his intellectual development over time. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. |
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Plotinus -- Influence.
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Plotinus. |
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Augustine, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury -- Contributions in doctrine of soul. |
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Augustin, saint, évêque d'Hippone -- Et l'âme. |
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Soul -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Soul -- History of doctrines.
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Soul -- History of doctrines. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cary, Phillip, 1958- Augustine's invention of the inner self. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0195132068 019515861X (DLC) 99021119 (OCoLC)40912653 |
| ISBN |
1423756886 (electronic book) |
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9781423756880 (electronic book) |
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128047288X |
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9781280472886 |
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0195132068 (Cloth) |
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