The first book of the dialogue «Contra Academicos» (386-387) is the earliest record of St. Augustine's (354-430) philosophical activity. In it, Augustine makes public for the first time the 'philosophy' to which he devoted himself after giving up the profession of teacher of rhetoric in 386. Through an analysis of the metaphilosophic passages, the article aims to show that such 'philosophia' is neither Neoplatonism, nor Christianity, nor theology in the modern sense, but the model of a way of life devoted to the search for truth.
«In philosophiae gremium confugere»: Augustine's View of Philosophy in the First Book of his «Contra Academicos»
CATAPANO, GIOVANNI
2000
Abstract
The first book of the dialogue «Contra Academicos» (386-387) is the earliest record of St. Augustine's (354-430) philosophical activity. In it, Augustine makes public for the first time the 'philosophy' to which he devoted himself after giving up the profession of teacher of rhetoric in 386. Through an analysis of the metaphilosophic passages, the article aims to show that such 'philosophia' is neither Neoplatonism, nor Christianity, nor theology in the modern sense, but the model of a way of life devoted to the search for truth.
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