PHL205H1 Lecture Notes - Tabula Rasa, Dialectic
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Phl 205 lecture 7 - augustine on memory and mind. Past at this point, his mother died (book 9) Book 10,11 discuss about the human soul. Without souls there wouldn t be anytime : augustine thinks the time is an extension of the soul. You can only search for what you already know: looking for god is like an old lady searching for the coin. The old lady knows the image of the coin. How can we talk about god if we don t have a knowledge behind him. I can talk about the tree because i have an image about it. See the broad planes and caves and caverns of my memory. The varieties there cannot be counted, and are, beyond any reckoning, full of innumerable things. Memory preserves in distinct particulars and general categories all the perceptions which have penetrated, each by its own route of entry.
