Ordo eruditionis. Memoria delle discipline. Tracciati di razionalismo agostiniano

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 Man...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1638112025-08-05T11:58:57Z Ordo eruditionis. Memoria delle discipline. Tracciati di razionalismo agostiniano Cristiani, Marta Augustine Manichaeism rationality Cicero logic rhetorics thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHF Medieval Western philosophy thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History 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. Published 2025-08-05T11:58:55Z 2025-08-05T11:58:55Z 2016-06-01 chapter 9788875903145 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163811 ita Quaderni di Noctua image/jpeg application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-6 https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-6 E-theca OnLineOpenAccess Edizioni Ipsum verum non videbis nisi in philosophiam totus intraveris. Studi in onore di Franco De Capitani E-theca OnLineOpenAccess Edizioni, Università degli Studi di Torino 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-6 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-6 9c743178-7a11-43f5-9c4d-07b93e99f80f fa6841bc-b860-4810-afe7-ff8dc7365791 9788875903145 E-theca OnLineOpenAccess Edizioni, Università degli Studi di Torino 3 156-193 Florence, Parma, Turin open access
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Cristiani, Marta
Ordo eruditionis. Memoria delle discipline. Tracciati di razionalismo agostiniano
title Ordo eruditionis. Memoria delle discipline. Tracciati di razionalismo agostiniano
title_full Ordo eruditionis. Memoria delle discipline. Tracciati di razionalismo agostiniano
title_fullStr Ordo eruditionis. Memoria delle discipline. Tracciati di razionalismo agostiniano
title_full_unstemmed Ordo eruditionis. Memoria delle discipline. Tracciati di razionalismo agostiniano
title_short Ordo eruditionis. Memoria delle discipline. Tracciati di razionalismo agostiniano
title_sort ordo eruditionis memoria delle discipline tracciati di razionalismo agostiniano
topic Augustine
Manichaeism
rationality
Cicero
logic
rhetorics
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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