Augustine's invention of the inner self

the legacy of a Christian Platonist

Abstract: Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space - a space into which one can enter and in which one can find God. This study pinpoints what was new about his philosophy of inwardness and situates it within a narrative of his intellectual develop...

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Author:Phillip S. Cary
Published: Oxford University Press, New York, 2000
Language:English
Notes:Also published as E-book (Barnes & Noble).
Total Pages:XVII, 214
ISBN:0195132068
Format:Book
Topic:- Biography > Relations and Sources > Platonism - Neo-platonism > Plato > Platonism of Augustine / of the Fathers
- Biography > Relations and Sources > Platonism - Neo-platonism > Plato > Platonism (Christian) > Anthropology
- Works > Doctrinal works > De diversis quaestionibus 83 > div. qu. 46
- Doctrine > Man > Interiority
- Doctrine > Man > [Doctrine de la connaissance] > [Connaissance de soi. Le cogito] > [Le moi - subjectivité]
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Summary:Abstract: Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space - a space into which one can enter and in which one can find God. This study pinpoints what was new about his philosophy of inwardness and situates it within a narrative of his intellectual development and relationship to the Platonist tradition.

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