QUADERNI DI NOCTUA

La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno. Studi e testi

History of Philosophy from the Ancient to the Modern Age. Studies and Editions

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Autore / Author: Marta Cristiani

Affiliazione / Author affiliation: Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”

Titolo / Title: Ordo eruditionis. Memoria delle discipline. Tracciati di razionalismo agostiniano

Abstract: This article offers an analysis of the problem of Augustine’s rationalism, by paying particular attention to his Dialogi, in which the Ciceronian and Christian ideal of the search for truth (quaerere veritatem) emerges as a life-long project. It shows how in Augustine’s thought the overcoming of Manichaeism has to be understood as a liberation from an ‘experience of madness’, or ‘perverse logic’, produced by an imagination unable to rise to pure rationality, in contrast with the ideal of order typical of classical education, and in particular of the rhetorics, based on Cicero, which Augustine had learned in African schools.

Keywords: Augustine; Manichaeism; rationality; Cicero; logic; rhetorics.

English title: Ordo eruditionis. Memory of the Disciplines. Traces of Augustinian Rationalism

DOI: 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-6

Volume: 3

Pagine / Pages: 156-193

Pubblicazione / Publication date: 01/06/2016

Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-6

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