
HoP 116 - Charles Brittain on Augustine's On the Trinity
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Trinitarian Structure of the Human Mind
The human beings are the image of God. We know that from Genesis. Given that the human being is an image of God, Augustine then identifies the human mind as being the locus of the image ofGod in a human being. So that's his basic image. He likes that because it's permanent, the human souls are immortal, so human minds are immortal, intellects are immortal. This self-knowledge, if it's a constitutive act, is something that's permanent, which is what we want for the God. Because God is eternally mean. Right.
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