Augustine: On the Trinity Books 8-15

Augustine (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

268 Seiten

2002
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-79665-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Gareth B. Matthews, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, has written widely on Augustine and on medieval philosophy generally.

Book 8; Book 9; Book 10; Book 11; Book 12; Book 13; Book 14; Book 15.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.7.2002
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Übersetzer	Stephen McKenna
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 213 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-521-79665-2 / 0521796652
ISBN-13	978-0-521-79665-1 / 9780521796651
Zustand	Neuware