tailieunhanh - AUGUSTINE'S PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Although scholarly research has been lavished on several individual aspects of Augustine's views on the nature and activities of the mind and soul, it will be granted that no substantial monograph has been devoted to a general study of the topic since the pioneering work of Ferraz in the mid-nineteenth century. The main emphasis in the present work is on the analysis and elucidation of Augustine's arguments, particularly his more intricate and obscure ones. Occasional criticism of some of those arguments is thus inevitable, even when due allowance is made for their historical context: but it is my hope that an overall impression emerges of a gifted intelligence applying. | AUGUSTINE S PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Gerard o Daly AUGUSTINE S PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Gerard O Daly As a philosopher no less than as a theologian Augustine marks a turning point in the history of thought. This book is the first to analyse critically his arguments concerning the nature and activities of mind and soul. There are chapters on sense-perception imagination memory time and the psychology of knowledge and discussions of the body-soul problem the emotions and Augustine s critique of the general theory of soul in the ancient philosophical tradition. Although his indebtedness to that tradition is stressed throughout Augustine s formidable originality as a thinker is brought out fully also. All quoted source material is translated. Afurthervolume on Augustine s ethical and political theory is in preparation. Gerard O Daly Lecturer in Classics at the University of Lancaster is author of Plotinus Philosophy of the Self and of numerous articles on the philosophy of late antiquity. He is an editor of the A ugustinus-Lexikon. AUGUSTINE S PHILOSOPHY OF .

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• magination
• The Psychology
• memory images
• General Theory
• The physiological mechanism
• Terminology