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Comentário ao Livro III das Confissões de Santo Agostinho: a busca da verdade na filosofia de Cícero e no maniqueísmo

2015; University of Porto; Volume: 4; Linguagem: Inglês

10.21747/civitas/42015a4

2182-7141

Marcos Roberto Nunes Costa,

Religious and Theological Studies

This article is focused on a descriptive analysis of Book III of Confessions by Saint Augustine, in which he describes three relevant steps of his philosophical-religious itinerary, as follows: i) the discovery of philosophy, with the reading of the book Hortensius by Cicero and the way this lecture arouse in him the desire for truth; ii) the successive disappointment originated by not finding the desired truth neither in Cicero's Hortensius nor in the Bible; iii) his consequent adherence to Manichean's gnostic sect, where, for nine years, he thought to have found, in a conciliatory way, the two wanted truths: the revealed faith and the rational truth.