ABSTRACT
This chapter turns to a deeper engagement with the relation between noesis noeseos (NN) and know thyself (KT) in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Augustine. The companion on parts of this journey is Edward Booth, whose PhD and subsequent books, notably Aristotelian Aporetic Ontology in Islamic and Christian Thinkers, are path-finders for following aporia in the tradition. Aristotle employs the logic of mastery to demonstrate that a prime mover is a logical necessity. Equally, Christianity sought to unify Platonic and Aristotelian themes, and for Booth it is only Augustine who succeeds in formulating 'a view of human personality that peope still accept today', one grounded in KT as notitia sui. Education also divides into the logic of mastery and the aporia of the logic of mastery. Giving education the chance to speak in its own modern voice here perhaps asks even more of education than was asked of it by ancient paideia or Renaissance humanism.
