Diana Stanciu: Augustine on conscientia

We hope to elucidate new aspects of Augustine’s views on conscientia as both ‘consciousness’ and ‘conscience’ not only in works already discussed in this respect (e.g. De magistro, Contra Faustum, Confessiones and De Trinitate), but also in less researched ones (e.g. De libero arbitrio, De musica, De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus, Enarrationes in Psalmos, De doctrina christiana, Adnotationes in Iob, De Genesi ad litteram, In Iohannis Evangelium tractatus, Contra Iulianum, Enchiridion, Contra Iulianum opus imperfectum, Sermones, and Epistulae). We will consider conscientia in the context of Augustine’s account of the natural created order, his theory of knowledge, his use of scripture (especially Matt 5:8, Rom 2:14-16, I Cor 2:11, I Cor 2:15, II Cor 1:12, Col 2:3, I Tim 1:5), and his views on grace, morally accomplished life and salvation.
Titles of papers:
1.Does Augustine’s Understanding of Conscientia Have a Place in his Theory of Divine Illumination?
2.Augustine on the Judgment of Conscience and the Glory of Man
3.Conscience and the Role of the Senses in Augustine’s De Musica
4.Conscientia, capax Dei/ imago Dei and Salvation in Augustine
5.The Purity of the Heart and the Hope to See God
6.Conscience and the Rhetoric of Delight in Augustine
7.Conscientia (…) itineribus (…) in sapientiam
8.Conscience and Jesus Christ
9.Sin and Conscientia in Augustine
10.Conscientiae requies (Conf. X, 30, 41): Sleep, Consciousness and Conscience in Augustine
11.How Bad is Augustine’s ‘Bad Conscience’ (conscientia mala)? – Respondent: The Polemics on Moral Conscience in Augustine
12.Naked is Human Consciousness (nuda est humana conscientia)