Augustine uses the Socratic injunction to guide his thought processes throughout his paper. When he says know thyself he is referring to the mind knowing itself. It is essential to his point that the mind seeks out itself. Hence know thy self. The …show more content…
He then precedes to talk about other theories about what the mind is. He says that some people think the mind to be a harmonic body essence, some element such as fire or air, or it could be atoms. He also says that some people think it to be some fifth body but he doesn’t know much about that. But based on what he said earlier, that when you seek the unknown you must know something about the unknown, your mind should know what it is because you are seeking it. If your mind doesn’t know which one it is it must be none of them. Therefore the mind is incorporeal. The Socratic injunction is used again here, know thyself. The mind knows itself in some form, and therefore it must know what it is. When something knows itself it knows something about the unknown that it is