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Imagination and Metaphysics in St. Augustine Aquinas Lecture ; 1986
author
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O'Connell, Robert J.
publisher
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Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874622271
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9780874622270
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9780585141374
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English
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Augustine,--Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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1986
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BR65.A9O256 1986eb
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230/.14/0924
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Augustine,--Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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The Aquinas Lecture, 1986
Imagination and Metaphysics in St. Augustine
Under the Auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau
by Robert J. O'Connell, S.J.
Marquette University Press Milwaukee 1986
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Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 85-082595
Copyright 1986 Marquette University Press
ISBN 0-87462-227-1
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For FR. W. NORRIS CLARKE, S.J. and FR. JOSEPH A. SLATTERY, S.J. who, between them, pointed down this road.
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Prefatory
The Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The 1986 Aquinas Lecture, Imagination and Metaphysics in St. Augustine, was delivered in the Todd Wehr Chemistry Building on Sunday, February 23, 1986, by Robert J. O'Connell, S.J., Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.
Father O'Connell was born in 1925 in New York City. He received his A.B. from Holy Cross College and was commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy in 1945. After serving with the Atlantic Fleet, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1946. He did his philosophical studies at Woodstock, Maryland and studied theology at Enghien, Belgium, where he was ordained a priest in 1957. After more theology at Chantilly, France and a year of ascetical theology in Mnster, Germany, he did his doctoral studies at the Sorbonne under Henri-Irne Marrou. He came to Fordham in 1962 where he became associate professor in 1967 and full professor in 1970. From 1973 to 1976 he was Provincial for Formation
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of the New York Province of the Society of Jesus; from 1980 to 1983 he served as chairman of the Philosophy Department at Fordham. He has been a visiting scholar at Fairfield and Vanderbilt Universities and has given the Villanova University's Augustine Lecture for 1981: Saint Augustine's Platonism.
Besides Fr. O'Connell's many scholarly journal articles that range over a wide variety of philosophical and theological topics, he has written three major books on St. Augustine: St. Augustine's Early Theory of Man: 386-391, St. Augustine's Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul and Art and the Christian Intelligence in St. Augustine. He has also published two books on contemporary thinkers: Teilhard's Vision of the Past: The Making of a Method and William James on the Courage to Believe.
To Father O'Connell's distinguished list of publications, Phi Sigma Tau is pleased to add: Imagination and Metaphysics in St. Augustine.
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Foreword
The last occasion that I lectured at Marquette stays with me as a very happy memory. My topic then was St. Augustine, and my "text," so to speak, the central section of his Confessions, Book Seven, where he unfolds the world-view which his readings in the Platonists eventually brought him to adopt. I mean to begin this lecture in much the same way; not to "push my luck," I trust, but because we do, after all, celebrate this year the sixteenth centenary of that epoch-making conversion in the garden at Milan. The thought-world of Western Christianity took a momentous turn in that garden; we are still pondering its implications.
For one thing, the import of that central section of the Confessions still remains the object of strenuous discussion, maybe debate would be a better word. I have tried to suggest elsewhere that Augustine appears more and more to have aimed at providing his readers with a concise introduction to his total view of reality, but a view to which he came only after five or perhaps eight years of further study and reflection. Anyone's interpretation of that Weltanschauung is bound to be contested, mine perhaps more than most.
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To focus those contestations, then, I hope here to present insofar as one can Augustine's own interpretation of Augustine; hunting through his preached works for parallel images, ideas and expressions, I shall attempt to reconstitute the three distinct worlds this man's towering imagination invited us to live in. Then, I shall invite you to reflect on whether those worlds can be combined into a single world, a human world which human beings can genuinely call our home.
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Imagination and Metaphysics in St. Augustine1
Some years ago, Vernon J. Bourke published his depiction of "St. Augustine's View of Reality."2 The controlling idea in Bourke's presentation may fairly be said to come to this: that Augustine thought of reality as constituting three distinct tiers. The highest of those tiers is occupied by God and God alone; the hallmark of God's supereminence in respect of the lower tiers lies in His being immutable both in time and in space. The lowest of those three tiers comprises corporeal realities: these are mutable both in time and in space. The mid-rank tier belongs to spiritual realitiesangels, but also human soulsfor while mutable in time, such beings are not strictly locatable in spatial terms, and hence cannot be said to move about, change, from one place to another.
That may sound puzzling; we are accustomed to think of our souls as "in" our bodies, so
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