Platonism Pagan and Christian

Gerard O'Daly

Contents: Preface; Plotinus' philosophy of the self; The presence of the One in Plotinus; Memory in Plotinus and two early texts of St Augustine; Did St Augustine ever believe in the soul's pre-existence?; Time as distentio and St Augustine's exegesis of Philippians 3, 12-14; Augustine on the measurement of time: some comparisons with Aristotelian and Stoic texts; Anima, error, and falsum in some early writings of St Augustine; Sensus interior in St Augustine, De libero arbitrio 2.3.5-6.51; Augustine on the origin of souls; Predestination and freedom in Augustine's ethics; Hierarchies in Augustine's thought; Remembering and forgetting in Augustine, Confessions X; Augustine's critique of Varro on Roman religion; Thinking through history: Augustine's method in the City of God and its Ciceronian dimension; Sense-perception and imagination in Boethius, Philosophiae Consolatio 5 m. 4; Index.