Saint Augustine's Memory (Augustine, Confessiones. Bk. 2.) (ISBN 0670031275)

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Remembering is a process that never rests. Memory is where Augustine finds himself and others and God. The power of memory is vast. We commit things to memory. We equate memory with mind. Memory holds the four categories of mind--desire, joy, fear, sorrow. In Book Ten of the CONFESSIONS Augustine moves from the past to the present. The chapter is Augustine's project of self-assessment. Augustine marks the combinative powers of memory. There is a relationship between memory and personal identity. Augustine reaches no sure answer to the problem of forgetting. Augustine sees his major failure as a desire for praise. Garry Wills has taken a significant portion of the CONFESSIONS and provided new translations and literate commentary.