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Augustine on the mind’s search for itself

Gareth B. Matthews

Faith and Philosophy 20 (4):415-429 (2003)

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Augustine on memory, the mind, and human flourishing.T. Parker Haratine - 2024 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 32 (6):1220-1240.details Augustine maintains that the mind at least consists of memory, intellect, and will (De Trinitate 10.9.13 & 10.11.17). While it is easy to understand the intellect and will as essential to the mind’s activities, memory proves more difficult to understand. It is not immediately clear, for example, whether a human mind could operate without memory, whether people without memory have minds, and what distinguishes memory from the intellect. To understand the role of memory and its respective activities, this article addresses (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Augustine’s Master Argument for the Incorporeality of the Mind.Tamer Nawar - 2022 - Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2):422-440.details In De Trinitate 10, Augustine offers an argument that seemingly proceeds from certain premises about self-knowledge to the conclusion that the mind is incorporeal. Although the argument has sometimes been compared to later Cartesian arguments, it has received relatively little philosophical attention. In this paper, I offer a detailed analysis and original interpretation of Augustine's argument and argue that it is not vulnerable to some of the main objections which have been raised against it. I go on to argue that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
How can one search for God?: The paradox of inquiry in Augustine's confessions.Scott Macdonald - 2008 - Metaphilosophy 39 (1):20–38.details The Confessions recounts Augustine 's successful search for God. But Augustine worries that one cannot search for God if one does not already know God. That version of the paradox of inquiry dominates and structures Confessions 1–10. I draw connections between the dramatic opening lines of book 1 and the climactic discussion in book 10.26–38 and argue that the latter discussion contains Augustine 's resolution of the paradox of inquiry as it applies to the special case of searching for God. (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Joy, Truth, and the Search for God in St. Augustine's Confessions X.Samuel Pell - 2021 - Studia Patristica 103:183-194.details The Confessions is an account of Augustine’s search for truth and happiness, terminating in his conversion to Latin Christianity. In recounting the story of his restless quest, Augustine also wrestles with a philosophical paradox related to the possibility of searching for anything. This paradox, first presented in Plato’s dialogue Meno, asks how one can successfully search for something of which one has no knowledge. Gareth Matthews breaks Meno’s paradox into two parts: 1) a targeting problem, which asks how we can (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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