God and Self in Confessiones IV and Beyond: Therapeia, Self-Presence, and Ontological Contingency in Augustine, Seneca, and Heidegger

Knotts, Matthew William

God and Self in Confessiones IV and Beyond: Therapeia, Self-Presence, and Ontological Contingency in Augustine, Seneca, and Heidegger

dc.contributor.author	Knotts, Matthew William
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-14T08:29:36Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-14T08:29:36Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	This article investigates Augustine’s reflection on the death of his friend in Confessiones IV. A critical treatment of this passage discloses the three key themes which will form the main substance of the analysis: self-presence, the contingency of being, and divine absence. Integrating philosophical and theological methodologies with an historical-critical treatment of Augustine’s work, this article relates Augustine’s insights to his foregoing classical context and his reception in posterity, with particular attention to Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 BCE-65 CE) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). This investigation shows that these three figures are connected by an appreciation of how self-presence and ontological instability are constant facets of human life, though easily neglected. Each advocates a curriculum of philosophical training, whereby one learns to pacify the mind by an awareness of the true nature of mundane reality. This research contributes to the renewed appreciation of how the therapeutic aspects of classical philosophy influenced early Christian authors; illuminates a key episode in Augustine’s life en route to his conversion to Christianity; and raises questions about the “apophatic” dimensions of Augustine’s theology and anthropology.	pl
dc.identifier.citation	"Vox Patrum", 2022, T. 82, s. 113-144	pl
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/vp.12725
dc.identifier.issn	0860-9411
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/4282
dc.language.iso	en	pl
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL	pl
dc.rights	Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/	*
dc.subject	Augustine	pl
dc.subject	Confessiones	pl
dc.subject	Therapeia	pl
dc.subject	Facticity	pl
dc.subject	Death	pl
dc.subject	Seneca	pl
dc.subject	Heidegger	pl
dc.title	God and Self in Confessiones IV and Beyond: Therapeia, Self-Presence, and Ontological Contingency in Augustine, Seneca, and Heidegger	pl
dc.title.alternative	Bóg i jaźń w Wyznaniach IV i dalej: Therapeia, Samo-bytowanie, i przygodność ontologiczna u Augustyna, Seneki i Heideggera	pl
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	pl