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The Greatness of the Soul, The Teacher
St. Augustine
Contents
The Greatness of the Soul
Introduction
List of Chapters
Six Questions about the Soul. Whence does the Soul Come?
The Characteristics of the Soul: its likeness to God
The Greatness of the Soul. Distinctions
Even without bodily Dimensions, the Soul can be a Reality
The Capacity of the Soul
The Nature of Length
Authority and Reason
Symmetry in Triangles
Symmetry in Quadrangles
Relative Symmetry in Triangles and Squares
Symmetry in Circles. Definitions of Point and Sign
Important Functions of Sign and Point
Knowledge of Abstract Quantities Shows the Soul is Immaterial. Definition of Soul
The Power of the Immaterial Soul
Objection: The Soul Grows with Age
Answer: The Soul Progresses Independently of the Body’s Growth
Metaphorical Growth of the Soul
Gradual Acquisition of Speech does not Indicate Material Growth of the Soul
The Soul Grows by Learning
Innate Knowledge in the Soul?
Increases of Physical Strength does not Indicate Material Growth of the Soul
Whence Greater Physical Strength?
Tentative definition of Sensation. How Sight Operates
Criticism of the Definition of Sensation
Rules for Definition. Application to Definition of Sensation
Do Brute Animals Possess Knowledge and Reason?
Reason and Reasoning
Brute Animals have Sensation, not Genuine Knowledge
The Difference Between Knowledge and Sensation
Sensation does not Prove the Soul has Quantitative Co-extension with the Body
Does Vivisection Prove that the Soul has Quantitative Co-extension with the Body?
Analogy of the Word to Show that the Soul is In-extended and Indivisible. The Soul and Number. The Soul’s Greatness
The Seven Levels of the Soul’s Greatness. Its Significance In the Body, its Significance to Itself, its Significance before God
God Alone Surpasses the Soul
Various Names for the Levels of the Soul
Order in the Universe. What True Religion is. The Remaining Questions about the Soul
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The Teacher
Introduction
List of Chapters
The Purpose of Speech
Words are Signs. Can Meanings of Words be Shown only by using Words?
Can anything be made known without a sign?
Are signs manifested by meaning of signs?
Reciprocal signs
Signs that signify themselves
Summary of preceding chapters
The practical value of such discussion. The necessity of directing attention to realities signified
The relative value of reality, the knowledge of it, and its signification
Is teaching possible without signs? Words themselves do not make us know realities
We learn, not through words sourcing in the ear, but through truth that teaches internally. Christ the Teacher
Internal light, internal truth
Words do not always have the power even to reveal the mind of the speaker
Christ teaches within the mind. Man’s words are external and serve only to give reminders
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Notes
The Greatness of the Soul
The Teacher
Index
