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Ideas of Augustine, by Text
[Greek, 354 - 430, Born at Thagaste. Studied in Milan. Bishop of Hippo, in North Africa. Died there.]
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p.24
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22887
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If God existed before creation, why would a perfect being desire to change things? [Bardon]
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p.25
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22888
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To be aware of time it can only exist in the mind, as memory or anticipation [Bardon]
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X.08
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p.214
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22977
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I can distinguish different smells even when I am not experiencing them
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X.08
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p.214
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22976
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Memories are preserved separately, according to category
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X.08
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p.216
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22978
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Memory is so vast that I cannot recognise it as part of my mind
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X.10
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p.217
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22979
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Three main questions seem to be whether a thing is, what it is, and what sort it is
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X.12
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p.219
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22980
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Memory contains innumerable principles of maths, as well as past sense experiences
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X.14
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p.220
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22981
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Mind and memory are the same, as shown in 'bear it in mind' or 'it slipped from mind'
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X.14
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p.220
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22982
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Why does joy in my mind make me happy, but joy in my memory doesn't?
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X.14
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p.221
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22983
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We would avoid remembering sorrow or fear if that triggered the emotions afresh
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X.16
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p.223
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22984
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Without memory I could not even speak of myself
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X.20
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p.226
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22985
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Everyone wants happiness
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XI.01
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p.253
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5976
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If God is outside time in eternity, can He hear prayers?
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XI.04
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p.256
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5977
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Heaven and earth must be created, because they are subject to change
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XI.14
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p.264
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5979
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If the past is no longer, and the future is not yet, how can they exist?
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XI.14
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p.264
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5978
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I know what time is, until someone asks me to explain it
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XI.15
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p.264
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5980
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How can ten days ahead be a short time, if it doesn't exist?
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XI.15
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p.265
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5981
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The whole of the current year is not present, so how can it exist?
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XI.17
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p.267
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5982
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If the future does not exist, how can prophets see it?
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XI.22
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p.271
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5983
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I disagree with the idea that time is nothing but cosmic movement
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XI.26
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p.274
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5984
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Maybe time is an extension of the mind
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XII.6
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p.38
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16588
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I prefer a lack of form to mean non-existence, than to think of some quasi-existence
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p.7
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22167
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Our images of bodies are not produced by the bodies, but by our own minds [Aquinas]
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p.44
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19338
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Augustine said evil does not really exist, and evil is a limitation in goodness [Perkins]
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p.73
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22116
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Augustine identified Donatism, Pelagianism and Manicheism as the main heresies [Matthews]
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p.74
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22119
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Augustine said (unusually) that 'ought' does not imply 'can' [Matthews]
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p.74
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22117
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Our minds grasp reality by direct illumination (rather than abstraction from experience) [Matthews]
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p.74
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22118
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Augustine created the modern concept of the will [Matthews]
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p.109
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4348
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Love, and do what you will
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p.116
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7821
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Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good [Grayling]
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420
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Some Questions about time
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17
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p.389
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16702
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All things are in the present time to God
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Ch.XI.26
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p.460
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3912
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I must exist in order to be mistaken, so that even if I am mistaken, I can't be wrong about my own existence
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XXI.10
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p.986
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6683
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The contact of spirit and body is utterly amazing, and incomprehensible
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