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Paperback Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist Book

ISBN: 019515861X

ISBN13: 9780195158618

Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist

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In this book, Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space-a space into which one can enter and in which one can find God. Although it has often been suggested that Augustine in some way inaugurated the Western tradition of inwardness, this is the first study to pinpoint what was new about Augustine's philosophy of inwardness and situate it within a narrative of his intellectual development and his relationship...

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