ACS Formal Questions #2

Universal- All things in a category (all triangles) Particular- some things (right sided triangles) Individual- one thing (specific and certain triangle)

Hebrew

Greek

Creation and becoming

Ontological- The theory or study of being or reality

Good

Good and evil

More knowledge equals more divine and god-like. Knowing evil is the loss of innocence, no longer in harmony with nature. We can now choose between good and evil, leaving our lives up to free-will.

Spirit or breath. A vehicle for divine reason.

A short allegorical story designed to convey some truth or moral lesson. It is translated to "riddle" in Hebrew

A presentation of an abstract of spiritual meaning in concrete or material lessons

The word

Logos

Word, speech, reason

The concept is difficult because it is transcendent and imminent at the same time. We need to be exposed to some faction of logos in our imminent experience, but we need to understand in deeper meaning how it points to transcending. It needs to point beyond its concrete meaning

Thagaste in Northern Africa

Father- Roman and Pagan Mother- From the area and Christian

Greatest of the Neoplatonists who are followers of Plato. He is Egyptian, Greek speaking who has great influence in Rome. Works get translated into Latin while in Rome, which Augustine is able to connect through. Augustine struggles with Greek

We acquire language through a collection of sounds. We get a sense of space in order to have relative space to others. We try to communicate our wants to others. We learn to associate certain words to certain wants from our interior desires. Once others understand our needs, we need to accept others wants and desires now. We lose our innocence.

Their physical body and frame

Rhetoric

Required to read it through his studies. Wishes to read it because he wants to master rhetoric and become more eloquent.

Starts reading it to gain skill but gets affected by its deeper meaning. The inner spring that is mentioned, the exhortation to philosophy, is what he connects to. It ends up changing his nature of prayers and desires, realizing that he is self-absorbed. He makes an ascent to higher level of wisdom where he can see his desires as self absorbed and in vain.

Christ

Thinks it is surface level reading where he cannot access it's deeper meaning. Cicero is much more involved and Augustine is attached to his deeper meanings.

We begin with intense physical love, only loving for physical appearance. Then we move to the attraction of the mind, then we begin to love nature, and all higher forms of society.

Invariant, unchanging, eternal,absolute

Low levels of ascent are relative. Higher levels are completely objective and more intellectual/conceptual

The theory of logic of reality

Being (eternal, unchanging) and becoming (Comes into existence and passes away)

Being is universal and particular. It is original.

With only our eyes, we are subjective to our minds. With the eyes of our mind, we are at a more conceptual level and invariant to level of society. We see with our mind rather than a base form of our eyes.