The reception of Aristotle by Saint Augustine

Abstract

For the fourth century d. C. of Aristotle only the treatises of logic were available in Latin and the knowledge of other works was due to the testimony of others. The translations of the Categories and On the interpretation, of some Eneadas of Plotino and the translation of the Isagoge were due to Mario Victorino. In addition to the mentioned thing there must be other accesses to the work of the Macedonian philosopher, since, for the case of interest of this article, St. Augustine has works, such as From Christian Doctrine, From Dialectic, The City of God, among others, in the that there are explicit mentions to Aristotle or his doctrines are very similar. The objectives of this work are to demonstrate the explicit mentions made by Aristotle Saint Augustine in his works; expose the indirect accesses through other sources to the work of the stagirite that makes the same; and present the possible use made by Augustine of the philosophy of the Greek thinker.