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- Title
FRAGILIDAD, MAL Y CULPA EN LAS DOS ALMAS DE AGUSTÍN DE HIPONA.
- Authors
César Calabrese, Claudio
- Abstract
Almost at the beginning of Agustin's prolonged dispute with the Manicheans, it takes an unexpected turn, from the attack on doctrine to a new strategy: to place himself in the center of the controversy to show the existential and doctrinal fragility of his youth, («what I should have said and I did not know»). This rhetorical strategy has as its axis to disable the core of the theodicy of Manichaeism, especially as regards its moral consequences: the substantial character of evil, as presented in the pre-cosmic myth that exposes its radical dualism. The Augustinian decision to place evil in the will of the post-Adamic man, in whom desire presents itself as an attachment to the changeable goods, is without any doubt the most significant step in this work. We consider that Augustine gives form to his concepts on the nature and origin of the sin from its response to the morality that arises from the Manichaean myth. In it, the doctrine of deliberation begins to take its place, although without a full definition it and it will conclude in De civitate Dei XI, 22 with the classical notion of evil as «deprivation of good».
- Publication
Bandue: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones, 2017, Vol 10, p5
- ISSN
1888-346X
- Publication type
Article