Description |
x, 463 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
I. Confessions 1-9. 1. Learning to Read. Words. Reading and Writing. Self-Improvement. 2. Intellectual Horizons. Manichaeism. Ambrose. Neoplatonism. 3. Reading and Conversion. Alypius. Simplicianus. Ponticianus. Augustine. 4. From Cassiciacum to Ostia. Cassiciacum. Ostia -- II. The Ethics of Interpretation. 5. Beginnings. The Letters. The Dialogues. 6. Speaking and Reading. On Dialectic. The Teacher. Defining the Reader. 7. Toward Theory. Tradition and Beliefs. The "Uninstructed" Christian Doctrine. 8. Memory, Self-Reform and Time. Remembering. Conduct. Time. 9. The Self. A Language of Thought. The Reader and Cogito. The Road toward Wisdom |
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo |
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Books and reading - History - To 1500 |
Notes |
Bibliography: p[419]-453. _ Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-453) and index |
Notes |
English |
Subject |
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 -- Books and reading.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 -- Influence.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 -- Knowledge and learning.
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430. Confessions
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
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Bowen, H. J. M. (Humphry John Moule)
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Feldman, S. Shirley.
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Wolman, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Binem), 1908-
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Harper, David M.
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Books and reading -- History.
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Books and reading.
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Self-knowledge, Theory of -- History.
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Spirituality -- History.
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Philosophy of mind.
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LC no. |
95034831 |
ISBN |
0674052765 (alk. paper) |
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