The itinerary of will in Saint Augustine’s anthropology - doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v33i2.10987
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https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v33i2.10987Keywords:
human will, freedom, grace, Saint AugustineAbstract
My main purpose in this paper is to demonstrate that for Saint Augustine the human will become truly free by a paradoxical process, that is, by being submitted to the True [Veritas]. That process occurs only by means of the help of divine grace. To the Bishop of Hippo, liberum arbitrium and grace are not contradictory forces but work together in the process of conducting the will back to God. To discuss that, I took into account mainly the polemic texts wrote by the Saint against Pelagio (the texts about Grace). The result of that controversial is that Augustine completely reversed the Pelagian ideas, defending the insufficiency of human will to help us to return to God, and the necessary work of divine grace for our restoration to freedom [libertas vera].
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