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Bermon, Emmanuel. "Le cogito dans la pensée de saint Augustin." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010533.
Full textFor descartes, the Augustinian view of the cogito amounted to an inference that could have been the work of anyone ; and that should have led its author to purely theological speculation which as such, were outside of the field of philosophy. For Husserl, it was Augustine himself who first made certain the indubitability of the ego cogito. This assurance however, played for him hardly anything but the part of an argument against sceptics : the new turning point is outlined with Descartes owing to the fact that he transforms the anti-sceptic conclusion of a simple counter-argument into a theoretical verifications. Nevertheless, do these interpretations, which were founded on the text from city of God, in which the famous "si enim fallor, sum" appears, stand up to examination of book 10 of The Trinity, in which augustine brings forth a much more thorough analysis of the cogito ?
Dupire, David. "Bossuet et Saint Augustin d'après les Oeuvres oratoires." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040081.
Full textFirstly we must examine the influence of the rhetorical theory from saint Augustine's de Doctrina christiana. No longer does the eloquence of the Ancients suffice for explaining the truth of Revelation. Philosophy must give way through prayer to Divine Wisdom as a desireable object in order to convert the listener - this Wisdom enlightens the Bible (ideas no longer come from appearances) and makes ciceronian beauty into a servant, even to sacrificing its purity. Bossuet takes this fundamental humanistic notion in its tridentine sense, and places the accent on vehemence, sometimes imitating the praecher of Hippo - who recommends that one plunge into the inspired authors -, while wavering between a more primitive and a more ciceronian style. Culture and the Unapproachable meet : call it a dialogue between creatures and their Savior, and thus we pass to the Augustinian doctrine of Justification. Bossuet shows us in the first place that Adam's exiled children, in full responsability (through free will, retained intact after the fall), can persevere in the battle against all evil desire, which tries to find rest where it cannot be found. And yet human corruption is such that efficient grace is needed to activate ordinary talents in our lives. This grace is an infallible agent, desireable in itself, that leads to a true acceptance, but supposes predestination of a restrained group, while not positing sins nor denying redemption for all, without exception. Fear of damnation, therefore, does not have the last word. Who ever seeks shall not lose the reward : the Free Gift comes before our least merit and adds to itself freely. And there will be other graces in a chain, unless we refuse them. The one (who receive) will persevere, and is a present sign that supreme grace will be given him, that he is one of the elect. Bossuet and his teacher go this far : divine liberty and human freedom are joined, beyond whatever we can say or understand in human language
Möri, Frédéric. "La question de l'âme et la question de Dieu dans les premiers dialogues d'Augustin d'Hippone : naissance d'une philosophie de l'image." Paris, EPHE, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EPHE5023.
Full textThis thesis concerns the first dialogues written by Augustine of Hippo (De beata vita, Contra Academicos, De ordine). We have demonstrated that in those works Augustine exposes the method he will follow and the purpose he will chase in the De Trinitate. The central interrogation of the studying cursus he exposes in his early works is actually centered around two questions : the fist concerns the nature of God. For him the man can live the happiness in resolving this double problem. These early texts are yet spiritual exercises that are supposed to impose and to legitimise the double philosophical interrogation, and that give some elements that show a solution : the soul must know herself as an image of a principle she is not. This Philosophy of image is in line with the neoplatonical tradition. But we have shown that this Philosophy is quite far from Plotin. The influence of Marius Victorinus has been determining, and this spiritual and intellectual project reminds the conception of the Christian Philosophy that Clement of Alexandria had defended in the second century. In fact Augustine has not made himself the synthesis between the neoplatonical and the Christian traditions, but has followed the way that Clement and Victorinus had opened before him. We have demonstrated that Augustine had not invented the modern self, or the modern subject. On the contrary, he considers the soul as an image of what she is not (God), and never as an absolute being, like his Christian predecessors. This way of understanding the first dialogues proposes a key for considering the augustinian Thought as it is : the thought of a man born in the middle of the fourth century ; and a key for reading his most important texts as they were probably supposed to be read : as spiritual exercises
Pic, Alain. "Augustin et Cicéron dans le "De civitate Dei V,9 : l'athéisme et la question de la prédestination et de la grâce." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001STR20063.
Full textGueydier, Thomas. "L'Augustin de François de Sales." Thesis, Tours, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOUR2003.
Full textFrancis of Sales’ Augustine is a “digested” one. Following Montaigne, the bishop of Geneva freely adopts the Doctor of Grace’s works. More precisely, he integrates it in the threefold dialogue he maintains with Protestants, humanists and mystics at the twilight of the Renaissance, making not only rapprochements, particulary expected after a century of theological quarrels, but also clear-cut breaks and several overruns. To achieve such assimilation, the author of the Introduction to the Devout Life draws on theological and mystical tradition that gives a central place to the bishop of Hippo. He prepares too the coming decades that will be marked by the literary Augustinism of moralists and the famous quarrel of pure love. It goes without saying that this proximity of Francis of Sales with the pessimistic author of The City of God conveys an image that severs with the optimism he is usually associated with
Guerbet, Marine. "Thomas d'Aquin et le Manichéisme." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024UPSLP007.
Full textThomas Aquinas may have had many reasons to be interested in Manichaeism. The 13th century was the time of the Cathars, considered in a sense as "neo-Manichaeans"; Thomas also sometimes mentions dualist "contemporary heretics" whom he brings closer to and distinguishes from the ancient Manichaeans, and even speaks of a Cathar author. Manichaeism is very important in the patristic tradition, especially Augustinian, taken up by Aquinas. Finally, the issues linked to Manichaeism are among the most important in philosophy: the first principle, evil, freedom, the body and so on. Yet this theme has never been studied for its own sake, even though allusions to Thomas's connection with the Manichaeans and Cathars are regular in the writings of scholars.This thesis studies Manichaeism in the works of Thomas Aquinas through its 250 explicit occurrences and numerous other indirect mentions, comparing it with his predecessors since the dawn of the 13th century. How does Thomas identify and refute the major Manichaean theses? And why is he interested in Manichaeism? Was it a current that was still active and that he directly opposed? Was it a patristic heritage that he used for theological reflection? A conceptual issue used to structure his thought?The study shows that Manichaeism is seen as a coherent whole by St Thomas, but that this coherence needs to be reconstructed on the basis of questions treated separately in his work. The issues are varied, as Manichaeism is above all a "figure of thought", taken from the Church Fathers, which he uses for speculative purposes. Thomas knows the contemporary Cathars well, but doesn't seem to have much interest in them.To counter Manichaeism, Thomas Aquinas generally takes up St. Augustine and the Fathers, but substitutes the philosophy employed by Augustine with one that owes much to Aristotle, notably on the first principle, the nature and cause of evil, the place of the body and passions in man, the analysis of choice, natural inclinations and habitus in relation to the goodness of man and his actions. But above all, the concepts and theses developed in response to Manichaeism are developed first and foremost in response to problems that are different from and of greater interest to Manichaeism: responding to distorted interpretations of Aristotle, countering those who attack the legitimacy of beggars, or simply finding a more balanced response to important philosophical and/or theological problems, concerning the body or human action for example. This study also shows how, on many points, Thomas evolves his thinking thanks to an in-depth reading of Aristotle and Augustine: he integrates new theses and analyses from the latter to transform his own theology.It is undoubtedly in the place he accords to the flesh and the consistency of the natural order that he differs most from Augustine, and that he responds most directly to a theological, spiritual and cultural context that has given rise to a resurgence of Gnostic movements. The challenge is not to flee the world, but to restore it in all its dimensions and return it to itself. Augustine spoke of sin and redemption, two fundamental keys to explaining how evil entered the world and how it leaves it; beings are not evil by their very nature, but insofar as they corrupt themselves. However, it is Aristotle who enables Thomas to give a concrete account of the goodness of nature and its dynamisms, which have not been destroyed by sin, by giving greater honor to what belongs to the body
Vasco, Nathalie. "Descartes et Saint-Augustin." Paris 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA010516.
Full textDi, Carlo Stefania. "Saint Augustin témoin du manichéisme dans les "Confessions"." Bordeaux 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997BOR30014.
Full textAugustine, hippo regius' bishop, agreed to manichean church for nine year. Received the baptism he started to fight this religion. His evidence is precious for us but, at the same time, he is polemic. So, the aim of thesis it's to compare the exposition of augustine, as his criticism, to the data we have, that is the direct documents and the indirect sources. 1- "from agreement to breakage" : the situation of manichean' africa in the four century (extension, organization, persecution, etc. ), the circumstances of augustine' agreement and his breakage. 2- "l'onto-theology" : a) the god question (his nature, characteristics, creation) ; b) the evil question (nature ? origin ?) : comparison between the manichean thesis and augustinian thesis ; c) the beauty and the order question. 3- "the dogmatic theology" : a) the creation and the sun and moon constitution among the manicheistes ; b) the christology (the questions about the virgin's birth, the christo's different figures) and the dogma of incarnation ; c) the trinitarian theology ( the manichean trinity, the paraclete). 4- "the moral theology" : a) the question of the absolute and of the relative in the moral law (the ancient reflection about the natural and positive law) ; b) the importance of ascetic spirituality. 5- "the holy writings theology" : a) the manichean thesis (about the creation, divinity, refusal of observances) ; b) the augustine answers (the allegory and the typology). The conclusion aim to emphasize the disputes around two axles : the jesus' divinity and the contuinity between the two testaments; it evidence the proceedings of polemic among a man that, maybe, hasn't completly denied his past
Dupuy, Trudelle Sophie. "L'intellectualisme de Saint Augustin à Cassiciacum : étude des trois premiers dialogues." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040092.
Full textAt the heart of the conjectures involving the doctrinal constituents of saint Augustine's conversion, his first texts have often been put to contribution. By reversing the perspective with which scholars have traditionally looked at them, we have considered them as ends of their own. Focused on Cassiciacum tryptique (Contra academicos, De beata vita, De ordine), this work attempts to trace back the inner experience that provides meaning to the different sources which irrigate it. This method, guarding against the temptation of retrospective interpretation, and considering the texts in their wholeness, highlights an intellectualism from which saint Augustine’s first steps towards Catholicism draw their meaning. Not only do we find in the Contra academicos a historical account encompassing academics skepticism within Platonism, and Platonism within Christianism but we assist to a powerful argumentation leading to the idea that the mind must be considered as an act. The fact that this assertion of the mind is also supported by an ontological thirst can be clearly seen as early as in de De beata vita. But this thirst is grasped from the rational experience itself because of the reciprocity between being and truth which provides the ground to the so called Augustine’s first "trinitary" analysis. The De ordine, based on the neo-platonician transposition of the stoic dynamism of the substance, shall confirm the importance of the rationality in the soul's ability to accede to god. In Cassiciacum, the rational endeavor is the crucible for ethics and ontology: it implies warding off the sensible and an essential restoration. That is to say that an ontological dependence is rot incompatible with an intellectualistic optimism. Well anchored into the experience of the soul's reality and powers, symbolized by the ancient figure of the wise man, it is indeed this optimism which presides over the elevation towards god
Zue, Obiang Eric Simon. "La question de l'éducation chez Saint Augustin." Poitiers, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007POIT5006.
Full textEducation is to the soul what food and medicine are to the body. It is a benefit and a cure for spiritual and social well-being. For Augustine, if two types of men are to be distinguished, “the first lives according to man’s precepts, the second according to God's”, this is simply to highlight the paradox that man himself creates himself when desire, an essentially positive attribute, becomes greed by way of pride. This paradox is particularly marked when Augustine affirms the goodness of the nature of the devil “in as much as it is natural, it is therefore not evil: it is its wickedness which makes it bad. ” And the fact that man is in opposition to himself does not mean that education also is in opposition to itself since, man “is bad, he is not a teacher; if he is a teacher, he isn’t bad”, since “evil is not a subject to be taught” and “a discipline entails on the learning of worthwhile things”