JULIA BUNEMER NOJIRI

The research proposes to seek a solution to the dichotomy between body and spirit in the course of Augustine of Hippo, specifically with regard to logic and the theory of language. If we take into account that our author was a materialist in his youth, and that the Christian faith adopted by him is a spiritual doctrine, we have at this turn in Augustine's journey a demand for investigation: beyond the question of divine illumination, how was it possible for the Christian philosopher logically excuse the passage from corporeal things to incorporeal things? Based on De Dialectica, traditionally attributed to the bishop and confronting it with other Augustinian texts dedicated to logic (De magistro, De doctrina christiana), we will conduct an investigation about the Augustinian language, since in it it is possible to catch the said passage to things you incorporate, therefore, being the sound that reverberates in the air something material, however, what the word brings to mind is not. Thus, in the aforementioned text, we will study the way language operates, its dialogue with Stoic philosophy, and a solution to an impasse in the conversion of our author.