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BUGANZA, Jacob. Philosophy as a Road to Moral Salvation in Saint Augustine. En-clav. pen [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.33, e530.  Epub 12-Maio-2023. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i33.530.

This article seeks to account for the Augustinian responses to the meaning of existence and salvation from his moral perspective. Philosophy, since remote antiquity, but especially since late antiquity, explicitly proposes the problem of existence, that is to resolve what is the hold of the human being. Therefore, in the first place, this article studies the role of philosophy (and reason) in the search for the meaning of existence; in a second moment, and visualizing that philosophy points to transcendence (to unity, in neoplatonic terms), the work seeks to account the moral path that man requires to reach salvation, that is, from a philosophical perspective that it does not detract from the theological position, which is not explicitly assumed in this document. Saint Augustine´s response, which has become classic, deserves to be recovered and taken up again, even when his debate takes place within the framework of the Neoplatonism of his time. Its echoes, however, continue to resonate.

Palavras-chave : Philosophy; reason; morality; virtue and salvation.