Agostinho e a reinterpretação do "Nosce te ipsum" no 'De Trinitate X

This dissertation deals with St. Augustine's reinterpretation of Delphic Maxim "Know thyself" (Nosce te ipsum) in the context of self-knowledge as shown in Book X of his treatise De Trinitate.I try to give a study of the Book X as a whole, not ignoring the initial and final chapters, since the order to know yourself is about halfway through the book.In this way, I argue that the precept's reinterpretation operated by Augustine implies a direction's change of the mind (the upper part of the soul) to God, a con-versio, which reorders the soul in the order of God's creation and ends in the expositions of three mind's capabilities that are certain image of the Trinity, namely, memory, intelligence and will.The work also exposes the argumentative difficulties faced by Augustine to deal with issues of self-knowledge in De Trinitate X, such as the paradox of knowledge in the relation between love and knowledge; the aporia of soul's knowledge (mens); the critique of materialists (or physicists), who thought that the mind was something corporeal; and the refutation of the Academic skeptics through its cogito's argument

Argument (complex analysis · Materialism · Reinterpretation · Skepticism · Soul · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies