Contents
Note on Quotations and Citations
Introduction
PART I. PLATONISM: A TRADITION OF DIVINITY WITHIN
1. The Kinship of Soul and Platonic Form
Seeing the Good in the Soul
The Other World
Enlarging the Soul
Problems of Intelligibility
Intellectual Vision
2. Identity From Aristotle to Plotinus
Aristotle; Knowledge as Identity with God
Alexander’s Interpretation of Aristotle
Identity in Plotinus’s Hierarchy
Unity and Division
Turning into the Inside
3. Augustine Reads Plotinus
Augustine’s Early Period
A Central Issue in Augustine Scholarship
Augustine on “the Books of the Platonists”
Some Plotinian Readings
In Then Up
Inner Vision and Faith
4. Problems of Christian Platonism
Life-giving Flesh
“Inner Man” Language
Christ in the Heart
Wisdom by Another Name
Ideas in the Mind of God
The Intelligibility of God
The Incomprehensibility of God
Consequences of Nicaea
PART II. AUGUSTINE: INVENTING THE INNER SELF
5. Inward Turn and Intellectual Vision
A Turning of Attention
A Philosophical Project
Problems of Nature and Grace
The Experience of Insight
Education for Vision
6. Explorations of Divine Reason
Who Is Reason?
Ciceronian Point of Departure
Cicero’s Turn to the Soul
The Superiority of Soul in Cicero
Divinity in the Soul before Plotinus
A Program of Education
The Self-examination of Reason
7. An Abandoned Proof
An Astonishing Argument
The Bizarre Identification
Immutable Things in the Mind
A Diagnosis
8. Change of Mind
Inseparably in. the Soul
Voluntary Separation?
Immutable Good Will
Soul as Creature
9. Inner Privacy and Fallen Embodiment
Soul as Mutable
The Varieties of Dualism
Resurrection Avoided Then Accepted
Falling into Division
Original and Final Unity
Locke’s Dark Room
10. The Origin of Inner Space
Memory as Inner World
Places in Memory
The Art of Finding
The Location of the Soul
Powers of the Soul
The Size of the Soul
The Lesson of Geometry
What Is Found in Memory
Conclusion: The Inner, the Outer, and the Other
Appendix 1: Chronology of Augustine’s Writings
Appendix 2: Two Key Texts of Augustine’s Ontology
Notes
Bibliography
Index