Ideas from 'Confessions' by Augustine [398], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Confessions' by Augustine (ed/tr Pine-Coffin,R.S.) [Penguin 1961,-]].

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

16588

I prefer a lack of form to mean non-existence, than to think of some quasi-existence

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies

22979

Three main questions seem to be whether a thing is, what it is, and what sort it is

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

22977

I can distinguish different smells even when I am not experiencing them

22983

We would avoid remembering sorrow or fear if that triggered the emotions afresh

22980

Memory contains innumerable principles of maths, as well as past sense experiences

22981

Mind and memory are the same, as shown in 'bear it in mind' or 'it slipped from mind'

22982

Why does joy in my mind make me happy, but joy in my memory doesn't?

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 6. Anti-Individualism

22978

Memory is so vast that I cannot recognise it as part of my mind

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self

22984

Without memory I could not even speak of myself

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

5982	If the future does not exist, how can prophets see it?

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files

22976

Memories are preserved separately, according to category

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness

22985

Everyone wants happiness

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / c. Idealist time

5984	Maybe time is an extension of the mind

22888

To be aware of time it can only exist in the mind, as memory or anticipation [Bardon]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block

5980	How can ten days ahead be a short time, if it doesn't exist?

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism

5979	If the past is no longer, and the future is not yet, how can they exist?

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time

5981	The whole of the current year is not present, so how can it exist?

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time

5978	I know what time is, until someone asks me to explain it

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / h. Change in time

5983	I disagree with the idea that time is nothing but cosmic movement

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning

5977	Heaven and earth must be created, because they are subject to change

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 5. God and Time

22887

If God existed before creation, why would a perfect being desire to change things? [Bardon]

5976	If God is outside time in eternity, can He hear prayers?