Quem foram os “filósofos platônicos”? Agostinho de Hipona e a sua relação com a Filosofia.

Miranda de Almeida, Rogério

From the ontological, epistemological and ethical point of view, Saint Augustine was influenced, besides the Scriptures, by the stoic philosophy, by Neoplatonism or, more exactly, by those thinkers that he designates under the expression: “Platonic philosophers”. Regarding the influence he received from the Stoics, the emphasis is placed not only on the concept of virtue, but also on other notions essentially related to the moral acting. As to the ontological and epistemological plane, it was mainly the Platonic or Neoplatonic vision of the two worlds that met in the Bishop of Hippo its most decisive adhesion. Thus, from one hand, there is the sensitive and, therefore, changeable, becoming, non-consistent and not self-sufficient world and, from the other hand, there is the spiritual and, consequently, unwithered, unchangeable, and eternal world. But the principal question requiring an explanation is this: who finally were the “Platonic philosophers” to whom the author of Confessions refers? It is this problematic, together with the ambiguities it raises, that I will explore throughout these reflections.

STOICISM; PLATO, 428-347 B.C.; AUGUSTINE, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430; VIRTUE; PORPHYRY; AMBIGUITY; VIRTUES; NEOPLATONISM

DoisPontos, 2024, Vol 21, Issue 2, p183

1807-3883

Academic Journal

10.5380/dp.v21i2.94867