Monday, April 7th, 2014...6:25 am
Confessions Book X
Saint Augustine began the book by examining his unwavering faith in God, then searched to answer what he loved about God. He began to look inward for answers on memories and its relationship to God, discovering philosophical dilemmas and paradoxes. Augustine realized sensing God wasn’t necessarily the knowledge of God, there are five spiritual senses we embrace the Lord, light, voice, odor, food, embrace. Memory is believed to be something vast and infinite was always there waiting to be assembled yet the person can never grasp the totality of oneself . The images in our minds can be retrieved it may hold various senses, skills, ideas, and emotions.
1. What does Augustine say about the paradox of memory and self-identity?
2. How does Augustine distinguish between memories of physical phenomena and conceptual information?
3. How does Augustine describe forgetfulness?
4. How does he describe the phenomena of recall?
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