Annotation
The course is concerned with Augustine’s conception of the human mind as an image of the Divine Trinity in the perichoretic unity of three essential moments: the mind, its knowledge and its love (De trinitate, book IX), or memory, intelligence and will (book X). Attention will also be paid to Augustine’s effort for self-knowledge of the mind (Book X) or to the image of the Trinity in sense perception and memory (Book XI) and to the Divine Trinity itself (Book XV).
In the first part of the course, the Trinitarian concept of Augustine’s predecessor Marius Victorinus will be thematised.