Philosophy as a Road to Moral Salvation in Saint Augustine
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This article seeks to account for the Augustinian responses to the meaning of existence and salvation from his moral perspective. Philosophy, since remote antiquity, but especially since late antiquity, explicitly proposes the problem of existence, that is to resolve what is the hold of the human being. Therefore, in the first place, this article studies the role of philosophy (and reason) in the search for the meaning of existence; in a second moment, and visualizing that philosophy points to transcendence (to unity, in neoplatonic terms), the work seeks to account the moral path that man requires to reach salvation, that is, from a philosophical perspective that it does not detract from the theological position, which is not explicitly assumed in this document. Saint Augustine´s response, which has become classic, deserves to be recovered and taken up again, even when his debate takes place within the framework of the Neoplatonism of his time. Its echoes, however, continue to resonate.
Agustín, san. Opera (edición de P. Migne). París, Patrologia Latina, 1860ss [Contra Academicos; De ordine; De Trinitate; Confessiones; De liberto arbitrio; De animae quantitate; De immortalitate animae; De moribus Ecclesiae catholicae].
Agustín, san. Obras (edición bilingüe). Madrid: BAC.
Alesanco, Tirso. Filosofía de san Agustín. Madrid: Avgvstinvs, 2004.
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Bettetini, Maria. Introduzione a Agostino. Roma y Bari: Laterza, 2008.
Beuchot, Mauricio. La filosofía de san Agustín: verdad, orden y analogía, 2a ed. México: San Pablo, 2017.
Blázquez, Niceto. Introducción a la filosofía de S. Agustín. Madrid: Instituto Pontificio de Filosofía, 1984.
Buganza, Jacob. En busca de la unidad perdida. La ética de Plotino. México: Torres, 2021.
Kijewska, Agnieszka. “Conversión del intelecto y conversión de la voluntad en las Confesiones de San Agustín”. Cuadernos de Anuario Filosófico, núm. 214 (2009): 51-70.
Mondin, Battista. Storia della metafisica, t. II. Boloña: Edizioni Studio Domenicano, 1998.
Moreschini, Claudio. Storia del pensiero cristiano tardo-antico, Bompiani, Milán, 2019.
Pegueroles, Juan. El pensamiento filosófico de san Agustín. Barcelona: Labor, 1972.
Plotino. Enéadas, I. Ed. Jesús Igal. Madrid: Gredos, 2015.
Plotino. Enéadas, II. Ed. Jesús Igal. Madrid: Gredos, 2015.
Porfirio. Commentario al Parmenide di Platone. Al cuidado de Pierre Hadot, trad. G. Girgent. Milán: Vita e Pensiero, 1993.
Rist, John M. Augustine. Ancient thought Baptized. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520228
Romano, Francesco. Il neoplatonismo. Roma: Carocci, 1998.
Sciacca, Michele Federico. San Agustín. Trad. Ulpiano Álvarez, t. I. Barcelona: Luis Miracle, 1955.
Theiler, Willy. Forschungen zum Neuplatonismus. Berlín y Nueva York, De Gruyter, 2011.
Wagner, Michael. “San Agustín y el escepticismo”. Avgvstinvs, XXXVII (1992): 105-143. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/augustinus199237145/1463
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Main Article Content
This article seeks to account for the Augustinian responses to the meaning of existence and salvation from his moral perspective. Philosophy, since remote antiquity, but especially since late antiquity, explicitly proposes the problem of existence, that is to resolve what is the hold of the human being. Therefore, in the first place, this article studies the role of philosophy (and reason) in the search for the meaning of existence; in a second moment, and visualizing that philosophy points to transcendence (to unity, in neoplatonic terms), the work seeks to account the moral path that man requires to reach salvation, that is, from a philosophical perspective that it does not detract from the theological position, which is not explicitly assumed in this document. Saint Augustine´s response, which has become classic, deserves to be recovered and taken up again, even when his debate takes place within the framework of the Neoplatonism of his time. Its echoes, however, continue to resonate.
Agustín, san. Opera (edición de P. Migne). París, Patrologia Latina, 1860ss [Contra Academicos; De ordine; De Trinitate; Confessiones; De liberto arbitrio; De animae quantitate; De immortalitate animae; De moribus Ecclesiae catholicae].
Agustín, san. Obras (edición bilingüe). Madrid: BAC.
Alesanco, Tirso. Filosofía de san Agustín. Madrid: Avgvstinvs, 2004.
Alsina, José. El neoplatonismo: síntesis de espiritualismo antiguo. Barcelona: Ánthropos, 1989.
Bettetini, Maria. Introduzione a Agostino. Roma y Bari: Laterza, 2008.
Beuchot, Mauricio. La filosofía de san Agustín: verdad, orden y analogía, 2a ed. México: San Pablo, 2017.
Blázquez, Niceto. Introducción a la filosofía de S. Agustín. Madrid: Instituto Pontificio de Filosofía, 1984.
Buganza, Jacob. En busca de la unidad perdida. La ética de Plotino. México: Torres, 2021.
Kijewska, Agnieszka. “Conversión del intelecto y conversión de la voluntad en las Confesiones de San Agustín”. Cuadernos de Anuario Filosófico, núm. 214 (2009): 51-70.
Mondin, Battista. Storia della metafisica, t. II. Boloña: Edizioni Studio Domenicano, 1998.
Moreschini, Claudio. Storia del pensiero cristiano tardo-antico, Bompiani, Milán, 2019.
Pegueroles, Juan. El pensamiento filosófico de san Agustín. Barcelona: Labor, 1972.
Plotino. Enéadas, I. Ed. Jesús Igal. Madrid: Gredos, 2015.
Plotino. Enéadas, II. Ed. Jesús Igal. Madrid: Gredos, 2015.
Porfirio. Commentario al Parmenide di Platone. Al cuidado de Pierre Hadot, trad. G. Girgent. Milán: Vita e Pensiero, 1993.
Rist, John M. Augustine. Ancient thought Baptized. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520228
Romano, Francesco. Il neoplatonismo. Roma: Carocci, 1998.
Sciacca, Michele Federico. San Agustín. Trad. Ulpiano Álvarez, t. I. Barcelona: Luis Miracle, 1955.
Theiler, Willy. Forschungen zum Neuplatonismus. Berlín y Nueva York, De Gruyter, 2011.
Wagner, Michael. “San Agustín y el escepticismo”. Avgvstinvs, XXXVII (1992): 105-143. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/augustinus199237145/1463
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