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Autore / Author: Franco De Capitani

Affiliazione / Author affiliation: Università degli Studi di Parma

Titolo / Title: La polemica antimanichea di Agostino nelle Lettere

Abstract: This essay sheds light, through a comparative study of the anti-Manichaean passages contained in Augustine’s Letters, on the significance for Augustine of the refutation of Manichaeism, which he had embraced in his youth. Augustine’s contrasting the Manichaean dualism in metaphysics, anthropology and ethics was his life-long project as a scholar, and lead him to expound in a clear and simple way his core beliefs in philosophy and religion.

Keywords: Augustine; Manichaeism; Letters; dualism; philosophy; religion.

English title: The Anti-Manichean Polemics of Augustine in the Letters

DOI: 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-7

Volume: 3

Pagine / Pages: 194-232

Pubblicazione / Publication date: 01/06/2016

Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-7

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