(.) For these pertain not to ornament or aid which is applied from without, but to the very nature of man.
In no wise are the bodies themselves to be spurned. 5 (420 AD) he insisted that the body is essential part of the human person:
In his late treatise On Care to Be Had for the Dead sec. He was much closer in this anthropological view to Aristotle than to Plato. Īugustine saw the human being as a perfect unity of two substances: soul and body. Augustine has been cited by Husserl and Heidegger as one of the early writers to inquire on time-consciousness and the role of seeing in the feeling of ' Being-in-the-world'. Augustine of Hippo was one of the first Christian ancient Latin authors with a very clear anthropological vision, although it is not clear if he had any influence on Max Scheler, the founder of philosophical anthropology as an independent discipline, nor on any of the major philosophers that followed him.
