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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.
Contents
Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: Sitz Im Leben: The Setting in Life of the Confessiones
Chapter Two: Socratism: Human Ratiocination and Happiness
Chapter Three: Pura Mente: Augustine's Early Philosophy of Medicinal Scripture
Chapter Four: "Autopsychographical" Augustine: Allegory of the Cave Structure in Books I - IX
Chapter Five: "Analytic" Augustine: Synchronic-Synthetic-Triplex and Superior Conversion as Meaning in Books X - XIII
Chapter Six: Confession-al Influence on Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics
Conclusion - The Cave and God Consciousness Understanding
Appendix: Structure and Meaning Analysis of the Confessiones
References
Index
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