Dumnezeu şi memoria umană în Mărturisirile Fericitului Augustin
God and Human Memory in the Confessions of Augustine of Hippo

Summary/Abstract: Superior memory, a specifi cally human trait, is accompanied by self awareness. This superior memory is based mainly on logical and comprehensive relations allowing the recorded events to be associated with a specifi c time and place. The author of this essay pays a special attention to this category of memory, and refers to the perception of Augustine of Hippo on the connection between human memory and God, as seen in the 10th chapter of his Confessions. Writing on the content of the human memory, Augustine of Hippo discusses the issue of intellectual notions, images of previ-ous perceptions, past experience, feelings, and, the most important of all, the idea of God and God Himself stored in memory. He reaches the conclusion that we fi nd only what we keep or already have in our memory. Thus, we have God in our memory, as we wouldn’t be able to look for Him if He wouldn’t be in our memory already.

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