Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self by Cary Phillip;

Author:Cary, Phillip;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2000-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Therefore, as we said above, if the soul is a subject in which reason inseparably is, then by that necessity by which it [reason] is shown to be in a subject—and the soul cannot be soul without being alive, nor reason be in it without life, and reason is immortal—then the soul also is immortal.5

Henceforth everything turns on whether it can be shown that reason necessarily exists in the soul as its subject. Once that is established, the soul’s own permanence as a living being is established, since “there is no way at all that Reason could remain immutable without its subject existing.”6 Therefore in the next section Augustine proceeds to turn “all [his] powers of reasoning” to the task of determining what Reason is.7 He rehearses three possible identities of Reason: the power of intellectual vision (the aspectus animi), the act of intellectual vision (i.e., the actual contemplation), and the thing seen in intellectual vision (i.e., truth). The first two are obviously in the soul and thus support Augustine’s line of argument, but “there is a great question about the third.” The question is

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