Augustine's Thought On Bodies

Augustine analyzes bodies as complex, divisible objects of "the bodily senses. Anything that is perceived by such a sense is clearly not one but many, for it is a material object and therefore has countless parts," of which it is comprised. There can be no ultimate unity to bodies, "for any material object, however small, surely has a right and a left, top and a bottom, a near side and a farther side, ends and a middle. We must admit that these parts are present in any material object, however tiny, and so we must concede that no material object is truly a simply one."