TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cary,Phillip
TI  - Augustine's invention of the inner self: the legacy of a Christian platonist 
SN  - 0195132068
AV  - BT741.2 .C37 2000
U1  - 189.2 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Augustine,
KW  - Soul
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index; The kinship of soul and Platonic form -- Identity from Aristotle to Plotinus -- Augustine reads Plotinus -- Problems of Christina Platonism -- Inward turn and intellectual vision -- Explorations of divine reason -- An abandoned proof -- Change of mind -- Inner privacy and fallen embodiment -- The origin of inner space
N2  - "In this book, 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." "Augustine invents the inner self, Cary argues, in order to solve a particular conceptual problem. Augustine is attracted to the Neoplatonist inward turn, which located God within the soul, yet remains loyal to the orthodox Catholic teaching that the soul is not divine. He combines the two emphases by urging us to turn "in then up"--To enter the inner world of the self before gazing at the divine Light above the human mind."--Jacket
ER  -