Augustine the reader: meditation, self-knowledge, and the ethics of interpretation

Abstract

Introduction I CONFESSIONS 1-9 Learning to Read Words Reading and Writing Self-Improvement Intellectual Horizons Manichaeism Ambrose Neoplatonism Reading and Conversion Alypius Simplicianus Ponticianus Augustine From Cassiciacum to Ostia Cassiciacum Ostia II THE ETHICS OF INTERPRETATION Beginnings The Letters The Dialogues Speaking and Reading On Dialectic The Teacher Defining the Reader Toward Theory Tradition and Beliefs The Uninstructed Christian Doctrine Memory, Self-Reform, and Time Remembering Conduct Time The Self A Language of Thought The Reader and the Cogito The Road toward Wisdom Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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