Augustine's Confessions

Conversion and Consciousness

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Augustine's Confessions: Conversion and Consciousness argues two original positions concerning the structure and meaning of the Confessions by Augustine. The structure is found to be a tool used by Augustine in his earlier pre-Confessions writings in which he uses the Allegory of the Cave in book VII of the Republic by Plato to both describe human consciousness and as a structural framework for his own life story. As with Plato's allegory, Augustine then uses Books X-XIII to do, what the author calls, "Scriptural Philosophical" analysis of the allegorical prayer previously given. The author shows that the Confessions is really an allegorical quasi-prayer that shows Augustine's state of mind or disposition through space/time—and at the same time uses different personas, schools of thought and metaphysical constructs to show the inadequacy of Plato's consciousness model of the cave to truly describe human ratiocination within consciousness in its totality—Synchronic-Synthetic-Triplex (SST) or body, mind, God-Will substance. Instead, Augustine demonstrates the superiority of the Christian conversion to that of the Platonic as described both by Platonic books and the books of the Platonists. The Christian conversion is based on the incarnate Wisdom of Christ Jesus within the Cave/World.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-10-29
Mått163 x 228 x 24 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareWolterstorff,Nicholas
ISBN9781793631350

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Foreword by Nicholas WolterstorffPrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Sitz Im Leben: The Setting in Life of the ConfessionesChapter Two: Socratism: Human Ratiocination and HappinessChapter Three: Pura Mente: Augustine’s Early Philosophy of Medicinal ScriptureChapter Four: “Autopsychographical” Augustine: Allegory of the Cave Structure in Books I - IXChapter Five: “Analytic” Augustine: Synchronic-Synthetic-Triplex and Superior Conversion as Meaning in Books X - XIIIChapter Six: Confession-al Influence on Philosophy of Mind and MetaphysicsConclusion – The Cave and God Consciousness UnderstandingAppendix: Structure and Meaning Analysis of the ConfessionesReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Augustine’s Confessions is a book written in the first and second persons – both a self-exploration and a dialog with the one who has always spoken, acted, and given even before we are on the scene. Dr. Craig asks what we might learn from this narrative grammar about the mind itself. He helpfully suggests that we should read Augustine in the light of Plato’s celebrated image of the ‘cave’ in which finite minds are trapped, and allow our reading of the work to be itself an opening to conversion, an exit from the cave. Here is an innovative and generative reading of the Confessions, sensitive to both history and metaphysics. It’s an original and persuasive piece of work and to my mind makes a real contribution to Augustine studies.