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This paper examines the merits of introducing undergraduates to the philosophical thought of Augustine by means of his short dialogue On the Teacher. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay on Christian philosopher Saint Augustine of Hippo's theory of peace is presented. It explores Saint Augustine's concept of universal peace as the harmonic intercommunication of individuals with each other as discussed in his book of Christian philosophy "De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos." It also presents a comparison between Saint Augustine's theory with German philosopher Immanuel Kant's concept of perpetual peace laid out in the book "Zum ewigen Frieden."

Augustine was a Christian philosopher and a Priest for the Latin Church. He greatly contributed to form Western Christian thought, representing a real Western Master. Augustine investigated fundamental aspects regarding pedagogy of religious status and gave it significant solutions through cultural thickness, for its theoretical strength, and spiritual significance. Knowledge and faith constitute the goal of the educational process. Faith is a principle, but not a definite term. It is an invitation to undertake new speculations, which will not be reason only, but will be guided and directed by faith: "Intellige ut credas. Crede ut intelligas". In De Magistro, Augustine supports the idea that ascending to God is a self-learning process, of interior growth that must be carried out under the individual's own lead, his will and rationality, capable of correcting the mistake so as to purify the eyes of the mind and freeing it from the deceiving attraction from the senses, in order to achieve contemplation of immutable superior realities. Of the self-learning process, following the Augustinian pedagogical method of questions and answers, we will analyze his work Soliloquies at the light of three main purposes: a) Soliloquies is talking to oneself, but it is not an num internal monolog of a self closed in its monadic identity, since Augustine articulates his thoughts coherently towards the search of the truth; b) Soliloquies is a dialog in which reason either plays the role of the instructor or the pupil; c) Soliloquies is not about the Self diving into its own essence of abstract subjectivism, but the search for the Self that co-habits that very same interiority, that is, the one that consists on The Other Self of Oneself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the influence of Christian thinker Saint Augustine's mother, Monica, on his conversion to the vera philosophia of Christianity. The role of Monica in the conversion of Augustine has been demonstrated in both Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues and autobiographical work "Confessions." Augustine portrays his mother as a true Christian philosopher.

Arendt and others have regarded Augustine as "the first philosopher of the Will," considered in a broadly naturalistic sense. However, the Stoicism that influenced the young Augustine has a better claim to have "invented" such a will. His own thinking about will was profoundly affected by the Neoplatonism that facilitated his reconversion to Christianity. On the one hand, Augustine envisaged the near negation of will through the irrationality of sin and the fall. On the other, he came to believe that through grace will could be re-identified with charity and with reason, human and divine. From a philosophical point of view, he thus rationalized, and in effect nullified, the concept of will with which he began. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]