St. Augustine (354-430)

On Free Choice of the Will

387-8 or 391-5

"Our next subject is whether reason judges the inner sense."

AUGUSTINE: Our next subject is whether reason judges the inner sense. I won't ask whether reason is better than the inner sense, since I have no doubt that you think it is. And actually, I don't [end page 39] think we even need to ask whether reason judges the inner sense. Just consider all we know about the things that are below reason: material objects, the bodily senses, and the inner sense. How could we know that one is better than another, and that reason is more excellent than any of them, unless reason itself told us? And reason could not tell us this unless it judged all of these things.
(pp. 39-40)

Government::Rule and Subjection::Rule of Reason

Reading Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1989), 133.

Augustine. On Free Choice of the Will. Trans. Thomas Williams. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1993).

01/14/2004

04/14/2009