Abstract

NAVARRO CRUZ, Bernardita. The Substantial Knowledge The Soul Has Of Itself: An Interpretation From The Augustinian Stand In The De Trinitate. Prax. filos. [online]. 2012, n.35, pp.111-129. ISSN 0120-4688.

From the book IX of the De Trinitate, Augustine reflects about the way the soul knows itself and establishes that the soul cannot yearn to know itself if it does not already knows itself in some way, because "nobody loves the unknown". In this context, there is a passage where Augustine describes explicitly the knowledge that the soul has of itself as substantial, by comparing the way it exists in the soul with the way the very soul exists. By explaining first what the term substantial may mean in the De Trinitate, and then figuring out how is it possible for the soul to look for itself if it already knows itself, this investigation will show that it is possible to establish that the soul has a substantial knowledge of itself, despite de ambiguity -either terminological or of sense- of the texts.

Keywords : nosse; cogitare; identity; essential; presential knowledge.

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