Abstract

MELO, José Joaquim Pereira. Santo Agostinho e a educação como um fenômeno divino. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2010, vol.24, n.48, pp.409-434. ISSN 1982-596X.

Current research comprises reflections on education proposed by St. Augustine on the formation of the type of person foregrounded by Christianity, or rather, the sanctified human being. Augustine's proposal, conceived as a long and exhaustive journey of moral purification and intellectual exercises, deals with the substitution of the "outer man" with * his materiality, mutability and mortality, by the "inner man" featuring spiritual, immutable and immortal characteristics. Although an educational process, the transformation is paradoxically administered not by the human being but by God through Illumination. According to Augustine, God is the Sole Teacher and teachers do not teach but merely instigate their students to seek knowledge. Augustine’s educational model is proper to daring people who are not afraid to seek full happiness which is uniquely given by God.

Keywords : St. Augustine; Education; Sanctification.

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