A teoria da reminiscência em Agostinho: apropriação e crítica

Abstract

This article aims at receiving the Platonic theory of reminiscence in Augustine and aims to present how the bishop of Hippo appropriates Plato's thesis to build his theory of enlightenment. From the fundamental texts of Plato's theory of knowledge there is a discussion about the validity or otherwise of the so-called reminiscence and what would be its true content. Augustine, centuries later, is faced with the same problem explored by him and needs a different answer: to explain knowledge present in the soul that does not originate from experience and yet does not come from the preexistence of the soul. We shall therefore approach Augustine's movement of reception, criticism, and appropriation of Platonic theory, as well as the Augustinian answer to the problem to which Plato, according to him, does not respond satisfactorily.