Augustine's Love of Wisdom: An Introspective Philosophy

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Baptism, ofAugustine and Adeodatus, 5 Beatitude (beatitudo, felicitas), 174; and blessedness, 179. See also Happiness Beautiful (pulchrum, speciosum, formosum); all things are, 136 Beauty, 66, 67, 136, 137; ofbodies, 129; of creatures and of God, 134; divine, 106, 107, 199-200 Beings, on three levels, 32, 33, 118 Belief: objects of, 21; and opinion, 187, 188; religious, 120 Bodies and spirits, 9, 32, 139 Bonum honestum (good-in-itself), 45 Buddhism, 12 Abstraction, intellectual, 42; approach to, 145; foreign to Augustine, 130, 131 Action and contemplation, 121 Affective disturbances (perturbationes), 159 Aim ofthe mind (intentio), 147 Akrasia (moral weakness), Aristotle's view of, 188, 189 Amnesia, 166, 167 Analogy of creatures and Creator, 134 Apatheia (no feeling), Stoic, 159,160 Appearance (species) ofthings, 136 Arianism, 14 Arts, liberal, 7, 23, 74, 75; learning the, 168; objects ofhave no images, 152, 194 Ascent of soul to God, 70, 71,88, 89,104,105, 129, 140, 142; in loving, 147; stages of, 145, 146 Atoms, Epicurean, 19 Attributes, divine, 140 Awareness, two leyels of, 176 1 N D E I Index of Subjects References to the Latin text of Categorical imperative (Kant's), 45 Confessions book 10 are italicized. Categories (Aristotle's), 19, 177 Causality: efficient, 129; primary and secondary, 33 Cause: efficient, 25, 26, 33; final, 25; material, 33; primary, 26; secondary, 26; ultimate supreme , 120; voluntary, 33 Causes, Aristotle's four, 25 Celibacy, 206, 207 Change, in place and time, 32 Charity (caritas), 17,38,45,58,59, 108, 109, 135; and the open mind, 120; reflection on, 145 Choice, free, 7, 8, 172 Church and state, 49 Cities (civitates), heavenly and terrestrial, 12, 47-49, 197 City ofGod, ·11, 196, 197 Cogitating (cogitare), 10, 37, 41, 49; of our neighbor, 147; and species in memory, 145 Cogitation (cogitatio), 56, 57, 78, 79, 82, 83; and collation, 152; on memory contents, 142. See also Thought . Cogito (I think), etymology of, 78, 79, 152 Cognitive and affective abilities, 164 Coin, example of a lost, 174, 176 Collation ofmemory contents, 78, 79 "Command, Grant what Thou dost" (iube quod vis), 108, 109,204 Concept formation, 152 Concubinage, 110, 111,206 Concupiscence, 110, 111,208 Condition, the human, 189 Confession: as expression ofguilt, 60,61, 119; as praise of God, 56, 57,62,63 Confessions (Confessiones): chapters in, 126; date of composition of, 117; triadic structure of, 126; writing of, 8, 9 I 225 226 I INDEX Conscience (conscientia): as consciousness, 119, 134, 192; moral, 46, 56, 57,58,59,110, 111,207 Continence (continentia), 108, 109; sexual, 208 Continents, three known to Augustine, 151 Controversies, 12 Conversion (conversio), 126 Creation ofthe universe, 9, 18,28, 29,34; two moments of, 195 Creationism, and humans, 36 Creatures, mutability of, 130 Cupiditas (lust), 37, 135; in Stoicism, 158 Deception: and error, 185; and lies, 187, 188 Decision, free (liberum arbitrium), 192. See also Choice Deeds: good, 60,61; and words, 60,61 Deontology, ethical, 162 Deprivation, and evil, 13 Descent: of God's power, 148; from good, 20; in judging, 137 Distention (distentio) ofmind, 125, 126 Divine triad (eternity, wisdom, beatitude), 25 Divine will, uncaused, 25 Donatism, 5, 13 Doubt ("If one doubts, one lives"), 24 Dreams, temptations during, 206,207 Dwelling (manentia), 104, 105 Earth: spherical shape of, 151; weighing the, 86, 87, 169 Education and love ofthe good, 189 Emanation, Plotinian, 20 Emotions: four Stoic, 19,49, 158, 159; and mental affections, 38, 135. See also Feelings Empire: Christian, 49; Roman, 12,203 Ends and means, 160, 161, 187 Energy, 145 Enneads (Plotinus'), 19 Ens (being), 32 Error, 27; imageless, 156 Errors: remembering, 80,81; will's assent to, 158 Eternity, 43; definition of, 122, 123 Ethics, 160, 162, 205; Augustine's, 11,47,203; hedonistic, 19; Plotinian, 30; theocentric, 44; Stoic, 203 Eudaemonist, Augustine an ethical, 190 Eudemus (Plato's), 3 Evil: as privation ofthe good, 148, 149; problem of, 7, 13 Evolution: Augustine and, 34; Darwinian, 28 Exemplars, divine, 153, 154. See also Reasons, eternal Expecting the future, 169; as life with God, 202 Exterior man, 134. See also Interior man Faculties, psychic, 38 Faith and reason, 21, 45, 139, 211,212 Family, as natural society, 197 Feelings, 38,82, 83,84, 85,88, 89, 96,97,104, 105; and divine presence, 193; four Stoic, 82, 83; influence of Cicero, 159; innennost, 202; as objects of memory, 158; role in a person's life, 120 Fictions (phantasmata), 157, 158 Fides quaerens intellectum ("faith seeking understanding"), 30, 139 Foolishness (insipientia), 149...