Confessions of Augustine Augustine of Hippo was an early Christian philosopher who was born in what is now modern Algeria, and his writings had a great influence on the development of Western Christianity. He was bishop of the Hippo Regius of Roman Africa during the Patristic era and is considered one of the most important Fathers of the Western Church (Mendelson). In his famous writing “Confessions,” Augustine recounts the first 35 years of his life and traces his spiritual development and acceptance of Christianity. Books 1-9 are autobiographical, while books 10-13 are analytical and interpretive of his faith. Book 10 of his Confessions explores memory while 11 to 13 are his detailed interpretations of Genesis, in which the creation of the world is explained. Book 10 continues the analysis of Augustine's memory and the temptation of the senses which was for him a mystical concept throughout the world. his life. He focuses on the idea that memory is unconscious knowledge, an idea he created based on the Platonic notion that “learning is actually the process of the soul remembering what it already knew and forgot when it assumed the human form." Augustine begins book 10 by expressing his love for God and saying, "When I love God, what do I love?" It does not connect God with the five physical senses, but rather with the immaterial senses. He states that to perceive God, he must reflect in his soul. Augustine says that this is not something practiced among inanimate objects or “beasts,” but nevertheless they owe their existence to God. Augustine does not associate God with the “life of the body,” referring to his physical senses, but rather says that he believes there is another power that gives him the ability to live… in the middle of paper…. .. infinite multiplicity." Augustine suggests looking for God in places other than his mind because, as mentioned before, even "beasts" have minds but do not have the concept of God. He questions the idea of ​​looking for God by proposing the question of how can we remember him if God is not already in our realm of eternal memory His response to the paradox he offered was that if one seeks God, he will find Him Even when something is lost in our memory, we should still look for it there? because it may be a piece of our eternal memory. Augustine's interpretation of human memory serves as an answer to the mystery surrounding the concept and provides his readers with a kind of “peace of mind” after reading his analyzes in Book 10. Confessions is a powerful piece of philosophical literature that has helped shape modern Christianity as we read and practice.