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| ISBN: | 1423756886
9781423756880
128047288X
9781280472886
9780198030270
0198030274
0195132068
9780195132069
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented or created the concept of self as an inner space-as space into which one can enter and in which one can find God. This concept of inwardness, says Cary, has worked its way deeply into the intellectual heritage of the West and many Western individuals have experienced themselves as inner selves. After surveying the idea of inwardness in Augustine's predecessors, Cary offers a re-examination of Augustine's own writings, making the controversial point that in his early writings Augustine appears to hold that the human soul is quite literally divine. Cary goes on to contend that the crucial Book 7 of the Confessions is not a historical report of Augustine's "conversion" experience, but rather an explanation of his intellectual development over time.
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| Other form: | Print version: Cary, Phillip, 1958- Augustine's invention of the inner self. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0195132068 019515861X
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