The Reality of the Mind: St Augustine's Philosophical Arguments for the Human Soul as a Spiritual Substance

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by  Ludger Hölscher

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PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
THE REALITY OF THE MIND

THE REALITY OF THE MIND
Augustine's Philosophical Arguments for the
Human Soul as a Spiritual Substance
LUDGER HÖLSCHER
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Ludger Holscher
THE REAL/IT
OF THE MIND
AUGUSTINE'S PHILOSOPHICAL
ARGUMENTS FOR THE HUMAN SOUL
AS A SPIRITUAL SUBSTANCE
Ludger Holscher
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'Quid ego sum, deus meus? Quae natura sum?'
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction 1
1 Starting point and method 2
2 Topic and structure 7
1 The lack of bodily properties in the soul 11
1 Materialistic theories and their origin 11
2 The soul as distinct from bodies in general 13
(a) The broader meaning of 'corpusa' s referring to
any corporeal entity 13
(b) Certain data of inner experience do not have the
features of 'corpus' 21
3 The soul as distinct from the human body 25
(a) Augustine's view of the human 'lived' body as
part of the one nature of man 26
(b) The soul's presence in the human body as proof
that it itself cannot be a body 35
2 The 'rational' incorporeality of the human soul
shown by basic faculties 43
1 Man's imaginative and memorial faculties 44
(a) Imagination 45
(b) Recollection (recordan) 57
(c) Distentioa nimi 77
2 Man's cognitive faculties 89
(a) Sense-perception 91
(b) Intellectual cognition of eternal reasons 104
3 Man's free will and power over his body 115