Augustine`s Invention of the Inner Self - The Legacy of a Christian Platonist
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Augustine`s Invention of the Inner Self - The Legacy of a Christian Platonist
Augustine invents the inner self, Cary argues, in order to solve a particular conceptual problem. Augustine is attracted to the Neoplatonist inward turn, which located God within the soul, yet remains loyal to the orthodox Catholic teaching that the soul is not divine. He combines the two emphases by urging us to turn "in then up"--to enter the inner world of the self before gazing at the divine Light above the human mind.
Cary situates Augustine`s idea of the self historically in both the Platonist and the Christian traditions. The concept of private inner self, he shows, is a development within the history of the Platonist concept of intelligibility or intellectual vision, which establishes a kind of kinship between the human intellect and the divine things it sees. Though not the only Platonist in the Christian tradition, Augustine stands out for his devotion to this concept of intelligibility and his willingness to apply it even to God. This leads him to downplay the doctrine that God is incomprehensible, as he is convinced that it is natural for the mind`s eye, when cleansed of sin, to see and understand God.
In describing Augustine`s invention of the inner self, Cary`s fascinating book sheds new light on Augustine`s life and thought, and shows how Augustine`s position developed into the more orthodox Augustine we know from his later writings.