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ST AUGUSTINE ABOUT GOD AND COMPUTER

Dafne Vidanec

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Inspired by Augustine’s understanding and interpretation of
God in his Confessions, the author wants to investigate, analyse
and explain the foundation, sustainability and meaningfulness of
a thesis, set out by a NASA scientist unknown by name, which
explains that Augustine’s concept of Trinity can be applied to the
understanding of the computer, taken as “something” that has a
“multiple activity and joint work”.
In the first part the author analyses and explains Augustine’s
teaching on God according to the Confessions.
In the second part of this contribution the author investigates
whether it is possible and in which way it is possible to explain
and understand the principle of functioning of the computer taken
as a “god of new epoch” in the view of Augustine’s Trinitarian
theology. This part also explains the features and principle of work
of the computer as a paradigm that foreshadowed and marked the
beginning of computer revolution.
The third part presents the final theses referring to the
possibility of (non) justification of the thesis that it is possible
to describe and express the concept of the computer by means
of Augustine’s theological axiom “multiplicity in one and one in
multiplicity”.

Ključne riječi

Augustine; God; Trinity; computer; multiple activity; joint work

Hrčak ID:

24855

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/24855

Datum izdavanja:

21.3.2008.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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