Augustine: On the Trinity Books 8-15

by Stephen McKenna, Gareth B. Matthews, Desmond M. Clarke, et al.

An appropriate motto for Augustine's great work On the Trinity is 'faith in search of understanding'. In this treatise Augustine offers a part-theological, part-philosophical account of how God might be understood in analogy to the human mind. On the Trinity can be fairly described as the first modern philosophy of mind: it is the first work in philosophy to recognize the 'problem of other minds', and the first to offer the 'argument from analogy'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521792312
• ISBN13: 9780521792318
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"