EDUARDO DE MORAES CARVALHO

The objective of the research is to examine the hypothesis that the work of Augustine, bishop of Hippo, accounts for the invention of will as a philosophical category. Furthermore, it is about enrolling the sequence of commentators who faced the topic from the notion of problematization, thus investigating the discursive machinery of the history of philosophy as an academic discipline. To this end, the dissertation will be organized into three chapters that correspond to three problematization matrices that touch on the Augustinian paternity of the concept of will.