Saint Augustine and Kant: a meeting of thoughts in the category of autonomy
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Autonomy, reason, Augustine, Kant, liberty, willAbstract
Saint Augustine, as well as Imanuel Kant, gives special attention toautonomy, though they do it in different perspectives. The aim of this paper is toestablish a relation between the concepts of the two thinkers, who lived at atwelfth century’s distance. The search of this aim will be realized from threeprincipal topics: the category of autonomy, in relation with the “liberum arbitrium”of man e his capacity of choice; the elaboration of the category of the will byKant; and the special character of Augustine’s thinking as expressed in theaxiom ”Understand to Believe”. The sources of the paper: Augustine’s worksDe Libero Arbitrio” and Confessiones; Kant’s theory will be reported from hiswork Foundations of the Metaphysics of Moral.
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