AGOSTINHO FRENTE AOS CÉTICOS ACADÊMICOS
This article examines Augustine’s criticisms toward the academic skeptics. To demonstrate that truth can be an achievable aim, he addresses the recurring philosophical issues of knowledge and certainty by focusing on the academic philosophers’ question of whether philosophy is just the, perhaps vain...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL) |
| Repositorio: | Dissertatio - Revista de Filosofia (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.ufpel:article/11574 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/index.php/dissertatio/article/view/11574 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Augustine skepticism New Academy truth. Agostinho ceticismo Nova Academia verdade. |
| Sumario: | This article examines Augustine’s criticisms toward the academic skeptics. To demonstrate that truth can be an achievable aim, he addresses the recurring philosophical issues of knowledge and certainty by focusing on the academic philosophers’ question of whether philosophy is just the, perhaps vain, “quest” (investigatio) for the truth or, alternatively, is the “discovery” (inventio) of the truth. We carry out an analysis of the Augustinian dialogue Contra Academicos that emphasizes the philosophical context where it is grounded – the acataleptic (academic) philosophy and either the stoic or Epicurean materialism. Augustine’s main challenge lay in overcoming the academics without embracing the stoic, and a fortiori the Epicurean, materialism. In later works, Augustine revisits and digs deeper into the main arguments he had put forward in this dialogue, reason for which Contra Academicos is key to understand his view on knowledge and truth. |
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