"I think so because I know that the inner sense is a kind of controller or judge of the bodily sense."
— St. Augustine (354-430)
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Date
387-8 or 391-5
Metaphor
"I think so because I know that the inner sense is a kind of controller or judge of the bodily sense."
Metaphor in Context
EVODIUS: I think so because I know that the inner sense is a kind of controller or judge of the bodily sense. If the bodily sense falls short in performing its duty, the inner sense demands that its agent make good on this debt, as we discussed a little while ago. The sense of the eye does not see whether it is seeing or not, and so it cannot judge what it lacks or what is enough. That is the job of the inner sense, which warns even the soul of an animal to open its eyes and make up for what it perceives is missing. And everyone realizes that the judge is superior to the thing judged.
p. 39)
p. 39)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Augustine. On Free Choice of the Will. Trans. Thomas Williams. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1993).
Date of Entry
04/14/2009
