Augustine and Ignorance: Two Roman Cases in the City of God

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, LXX, Special Issue, 2025 (p. 165-187)en-US
dc.creatorGRIJAC, Lavinia
dc.date2025-12-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T10:40:55Z
dc.descriptionThis paper argues that Augustine is consciously careful when associating Romans of pre–Christian times with ignorance in De civitate Dei. After proposing three types of Augustinian ignorance based on De libero arbitrio, I examine the case of exemplary pagan Romans in De civitate Dei, Book V, where their inherited deep ignorance leads to a positive assessment. Then, I examine the negative perception of Varro, representing erudite pagan Romans in the same work, linking it to Augustine’s views on the ascent of the soul to God. Lastly, a comparative analysis of Augustine’s Varro in De consensu evangelistarum, Book I and his “updated” Varro in De civitate Dei, Books VII and XIX shows that he deliberately reverted Varro to a state of ignorance after he reviewed Varro’s identification of Jupiter with the God of the Jews.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/9985
dc.identifier10.24193/subbphil.2025.sp.iss.09
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1331
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/9985/9622
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2025 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia; Volume 70, Special Issue, December 2025; 165-187en-US
dc.source2065-9407
dc.source10.24193/subbphil.2025.sp.iss
dc.subjectAugustineen-US
dc.subjectignoranceen-US
dc.subjectpagansen-US
dc.subjectpre–Christian Romansen-US
dc.subjectexemplaen-US
dc.subjectVarroen-US
dc.subjectDe civitate Deien-US
dc.subjectDe consensu evangelistarumen-US
dc.titleAugustine and Ignorance: Two Roman Cases in the City of Goden-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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