This article describes a conception of happiness which can be abstracted from the works of St. Augustine of Hippo. The article’s author undertakes a systematic reconstruction of Augustine’s views, thus claiming that such reconstruction is possible and that certain important themes of Augustine’s views remained the same during his entire intellectual career. These themes are the claim that man’s desire for happiness is natural to him; the claim that the essence of happiness consists in reaching God; and the claim that the path towards this happiness leads through gaining wisdom. The author also presents the main change that occurred in the Augustinian vision of happiness, that is, “moving” the possibility of reaching full happiness from this life to the afterlife.
https://doi.org/10.21697/2016.52.1.03
English
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