Les Soliloques d’Augustin

Introduction, texte critique, traduction et notes complémentaires

Thèse inédit soutenue le 25-02-2011 à Paris 4, dans le cadre de Ecole doctorale Mondes anciens et médiévaux (Paris), en partenariat avec Institut d’Études Augustiniennes (laboratoire). Summary : Augustine’s Soliloquies, a philosophical dialogue, were written in 386-387, straight after the author’s c...

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Author:Catherine Lefort
Published: 2011
Format:Dissertation
Topic:- Biography > Person and Life > Specialized biographical studies > stay at Cassiciacum
- Biography > Person and Life > Conversion / Baptism > Conversion
- Biography > Relations and Sources > Platonism - Neo-platonism > General studies > Neo-platonism
- Biography > Relations and Sources > Platonism - Neo-platonism > Platonism of Varro, Cicero and Virgil > Cicero
- Works > Dialogues / Early works > Soliloquia
Status:Needs Review
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Summary:Thèse inédit soutenue le 25-02-2011 à Paris 4, dans le cadre de Ecole doctorale Mondes anciens et médiévaux (Paris), en partenariat avec Institut d’Études Augustiniennes (laboratoire). Summary : Augustine’s Soliloquies, a philosophical dialogue, were written in 386-387, straight after the author’s conversion to Christianity. The aim of this dialogue is to reach a firm knowledge of what soul and God are. The first, interpretative part of this doctoral work shows that, beyond the neo-platonician spirituality that deeply fills Augustine’s writings, this dialogue constitutes the inaugural meditation on the experience of conversion. Thus, such a perspective allows considering this dialogue as the first step of a continuous thought that will eventually lead to the Confessions ; it also allows analysing Augustine’s intellectual horizon in a newly oriented way that brings into light his philosophical sources ; lastly, it allows seeing how some intuitions, among the major ones of his thought, appeared in an almost definitively structured way as soon as 386. The second part of this doctoral work is dedicated to the study of manuscripts tradition of this early year dialogue, of which a new translation is being proposed, with a set of twenty-one complementary notes.

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