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San Agustín: la tensión entre el amor propio y el amor divino en La ciudad de Dios

Translated title of the contribution: Saint Augustine: the tension between self-love and divine love in The City of God

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Abstract

the purpose of this articleis to analyze the concept of love in The City of Godby Saint Augustine. For which I will do an exegetical reconstruction that, in the first place, will examine the concepts of passions and moral sin within AugustinianPsychology. Secondly, I will address to the distinction between self-love, the expression of the selfishness of the human being when he is carried away by human passions, and the love of God (amor dei),the manifestation of right and unconditional desire, oriented both ontologically and anthropologically to God as Supreme Good and source of truth. Thirdly, I will focus my attention on the concepts of the earthly city and the divine city that embody the author's political vision. Augustinian reflections are novel for their time, and these can be current because we find the recognition of the conflictivedimension of political life and in germ a policy of caring for the other through the caritas.
Translated title of the contributionSaint Augustine: the tension between self-love and divine love in The City of God
Original languageSpanish
Article number1
Pages (from-to)9-33
Number of pages24
JournalREVISTA FILOSOFÍA UIS
Volume24
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Mar 2025

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