Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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  • Augustine and the perichoretic model of the soul: a reminder
  • The Augustinian "ternaries
  • Virtual" trinity: mens, notitia, amor(mens, knowledge, love) and "actual" trinity memoria, intellegentia, voluntas (memory, intelligence, will)
  • Mens and memoria
  • The philologist's point of view: the mens-memini relationship according to Ernout and Meillet
  • The "memory of the present": Augustine's reading of Virgil
  • An exegesis of the Aeneid: Ulysses and the Cyclops
  • Memory as "the soul's presence to itself
  • Inner presence and self-certainty
  • Mutual immanence of psychic acts: a return to perichoresis(circumincessio)
  • Two medieval examples
  • The circumincessio of mental acts according to François de Meyronnes and Pierre de Navarre (Petrus de Atarrabia)
  • Modern developments
  • Suárez (1548-1617)
  • William Sherlock (c. 1641-1707): the "mutual consciousness " of divine Persons
  • Baumgarten (1714-1762): personalitas as "intellectual memory
  • The perichoretic model is mereological
  • Definition of the mereological model of the soul according to Augustine: a whole immanent to itself as a part of itself, connumed with its own acts
  • The BrentanianEinwohnung is theinhabitatio of medieval theologians, a mode of "presence in" that cannot be thought of in terms of the accident's inherence in a subject (subjectivity, attributivism*), and is characterized by the mutual compenetration or immanence of Persons (in Trinitarian theology) and mental acts (in psychology)
  • What does this have to do with Aristotle?
  • The need for a shock of simplification

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