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Although unknown to many Western philosophers today, Augustine's De Trinitate is a strikingly original and highly important philosophical treatise. As a whole, the work is an account of the perplexing Christian doctrine that God is both three and one. But, quite surprisingly, the last half is also a treatise on the philosophy of mind; it is, in fact, the first such treatise on mind in the modern sense of “mind”. How Augustine came to write a theological work on the Divine Trinity which is also a treatise on the human mind is an interesting story in itself.

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