Augustine -On the Trinity Books 8-15 (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Author: Edmund Augustine,Gareth B. Matthews,Stephen McKenna
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Philosophy, History Of Western Philosophy, Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600, Philosophy Of Religion, Nature & Existence Of God, Christian Theology
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Hardcover

An appropriate motto for Augustine's great work On the Trinity is 'faith in search of understanding'. In this treatise Augustine offers a part-theological, part-philosophical account of how God might be understood in analogy to the human mind. On the Trinity can be fairly described as the first modern philosophy of mind: it is the first work in philosophy to recognize the 'problem of other minds', and the first to offer the 'argument from analogy' as a response to that problem. Other subjects that it discusses include the nature of the mind and the nature of the body, the doctrine of 'illumination', and thinking as inner speech. This volume presents the philosophical section of the work, and in a historical and philosophical introduction Gareth Matthews places Augustine's arguments in context and assesses their influence on later thinkers.

Table Of Contents
Book 8; Book 9; Book 10; Book 11; Book 12; Book 13; Book 14; Book 15.
About Augustine
Gareth B. Matthews, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, has written widely on Augustine and on medieval philosophy generally.

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Artist / Author Edmund Augustine, Gareth B. Matthews, Stephen McKenna
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