Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist by Phillip Cary

Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist

Phillip Cary

232 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

history philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In this book, Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space-a space into which one can enter and in which one can find God. Although it has often been suggested that Augustine in some way inaugurated ...

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