Episode 122: Augustine on Mind and Metaphysics
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2015
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
Yet more on The Confessions, now on books 10–13. What is memory and how does it relate to time and being? Augustine thinks that memory is a storehouse, but it contains not just the sensations we put in it, but also (à la Plato's theory of recollection) all legitimate knowledge. It's our route to God, to real Being. Mark, Wes, and Dylan also discuss time, language, knowledge, the existence of evil, and more.
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| 0:36.6 | by some guys who were at one point said I'm doing philosophy for a living, |
| 0:40.0 | but then thought better out. |
| 0:42.0 | Our question for episode 122 is something like, |
| 0:45.0 | what's the relationship between psychology and metaphysics? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm re-read St. Augustine's Confessions from around the year 400 AD, |
| 0:52.0 | books 10 through 13, and we'll bring up some earlier parts again |
| 0:55.0 | as this is really a continuation of episode 121, where we're at the rest of the book. |
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| 1:04.0 | This is Mark Lins and Myers, speaking to you from Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:06.0 | This is Wes Owen and Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1:09.0 | This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin. |
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