PHL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dispersed Knowledge, Visual Perception
15 Apr 2017
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Look at best part of someone else"s soul. Memory, understanding, will (example provided by augustine) Memory and understanding are connected (they are 3 different things but they make up one mind) He points to the mind of human beings because he thinks there is a better chance to find something similar to god within the human. Humans desire to know themselves augustine thinks we have: mind, love, and knowledge. Claim a: no one can desire what they don"t know (10, 1, 1) Claim b: what then does he love no one desires to know the known you cannot desire to know what you already know [at all] (10,1,2; p. 43) General (can know something in a very general way) specific (then he would want to get into the details) (p. 42) In truth itself (virtue, beauty the truth we know in itself) in reality the truth is usually god (god himself)
