Sunday, June 22, 2014

Augustine's triad, 1/18/2013 note


accounting for the mind, Augustine sees a triad of will, understanding and remembering... like many other notable postulates, these can be seen to correlate to my tri-attitude, the aesthetic, scientific and the spiritual attitudes. Bearing a youthful mind we express a vigorous will-power up against the status quo to establish our place and potentially recreate the rules and insist upon upheaval or the new; as mature adults we express our resolve, that we seek more to understand and set our will to maintaining a stabile arival upon a plateau; as a senescent adult or near death we strive to remember a happy life or wonder how we will be remembered once we are gone and whether we ourselves will preserve our identity for ourselves without the remembering...

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