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基本説明
The fifteen studies here reflect the author's interest in Greek and Roman concepts of human identity, the nature of mind and soul and such psychological processes as sense-perception, imagination, memory and time-awarreness.
Full Description
The 15 studies collected here reflect a prolonged interest in the Platonism of late antiquity, and most of them are concerned with its exploration of the themes of human identity and the nature of mind and soul. Modern philosophers call this kind of theorizing the philosophy of mind, and several psychological concepts and activities that feature regularly in work on the philosophy of mind - sense-perception, imagination, memory, our awareness of time - are discussed in this volume. Two figures dominate the collection, Plotinus and Augustine. The author's earliest research was undertaken to test claims that Plotinus was the first philosopher of Antiquity to identify concepts of consciousness and the self, and in particular to map his discourse about the self onto his scheme of three transcendental hypostases, and explore the ways in which these hypostases may be said to be "present" to us, whether in our rational activity or in mystical states of consciousness. From Plotinus he moved onto Augustine.One implicit conclusion of his studies is that their topics and concerns reflect, for the most part, not so much debates between pagan and Christian adversaries, as endeavours by participants in a common culture, that of the Roman world of late antiquity, to understand themselves and their environment.
Contents
Plotinus' philosophy of the self, Shannon; the presence of the one in Plotinus; memory in Plotinus and two early texts of St. Augustine; did St. Augustine ever believe in the soul's pre-existence?; time as distentio and St. Augustine's exegesis of Philippians 3, 12-14; Augustine on the measurement of time - some comparisons with Aristotelian and Stoic texts; anima, error and falsum in some early writings of St. Augustine; sensus interior in St. Augustine, de libero arbitrio 2.3.5-6.51; Augustine on the origin of souls; predestination and freedom in Augustine's ethics; hierarchies in Augustine's thought; remembering and forgetting in Augustine, Confessions X; Augustine's critique of Varro on Roman religion; thinking through history - Augustine's method in the city of God and its Ciceronian dimension; sense-perception and imagination in Boethius, philosophiae consolatio 5m 4'.
