TEORIA DO CONHECIMENTO NA TRINDADE DE SANTO AGOSTINHO: A RAZÃO SUPORTE DA FÉ PARA O ALCANCE DA BEATITUDE

Abstract

Beatitude it is a desirable good in itself. Is this good whithin reach? To answer this question, we will demonstrate how beatitude, within Augustinian thought, is an ultimate end and fully attainable from various stages of knowledge. We have in mind to analyze how, in the human being, the process of knowing this good occurs. In other words, how, from faith, and with the use of reason, man knows and attains true happiness (beatitude). In order to frame Saint Augustine's answer to this question, the basis of the reasoning will be the trinity treatise of Saint Augustine. In this treatise it is observed, according to the Augustinian assumptions, that it is due to the grace, poured out by God in men, that they have knowledge, understanding and understanding of the highest goods, of which happiness is one of them. In our monographic study we will also show how Saint Augustine, in his treatise on the trinity, affirms that the faculties of reason, such as, for example, memory, intelligence and will, are related to the true trinity and are part of a single and real substance.