This paper analyzes the occurrences (a) of the word 'philosophia' in quotations of Colossians 2:8 and (b) of the expression 'philosophi huius mundi' in Augustine of Hippo's writings. Augustine learned from Simplicianus in 386 to differentiate Platonism from "philosophy according to the elements of this world", which was censured by St. Paul in Colossians 2:8. Augustine went so far as to define pagan Platonists as "philosophers of this world" in the pejorative sense on the basis of another Pauline verse, I Corinthians 1:20, and he did so only after 406.
The Development of Augustine's Metaphilosophy: Col 2:8 and the «Philosophers of this World»
CATAPANO, GIOVANNI
2007
Abstract
This paper analyzes the occurrences (a) of the word 'philosophia' in quotations of Colossians 2:8 and (b) of the expression 'philosophi huius mundi' in Augustine of Hippo's writings. Augustine learned from Simplicianus in 386 to differentiate Platonism from "philosophy according to the elements of this world", which was censured by St. Paul in Colossians 2:8. Augustine went so far as to define pagan Platonists as "philosophers of this world" in the pejorative sense on the basis of another Pauline verse, I Corinthians 1:20, and he did so only after 406.
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