Das Kriterium der Wahrheit in Augustins Contra Academicos

Author: Fuhrer, Therese
Title: Das Kriterium der Wahrheit in Augustins Contra Academicos
Review/Collection: "Vigiliae Christianae", 46
Year edition: 1992
Pages: 257-275
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Can a person attain wisdom and happiness by seeking the truth, or only when he has found it? - With this question the participants in Augustine's earliest surviving writing, the dialogue writing, the dialogue Contra Academίcοs. In this dialogue Augustin's pupil Licentius and later Alυρius take the viewpoint of the New Academy, namely that one can become a sap1ens even even if one does not find the truth, but only seeks it;' the opposing position is presented in the first Βuch by another disciple of Augustin, Τrygetius, then by Augustine himself: 2 Only after one has found the truth sαρientίa has been attained (cf. 1, 2, 5-1, 3, 7).[Author]
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Author initials: Fuhrer 1992