El amor a la verdad según san Agustín de Hipona / The Love of Truth Sccording to Saint Augustine of Hippo

Abstract

The love for the truth encompasses Augustine´s life. His yearning for truth is rooted in his concrete and personal existence. The desire to know worries him restlessly. He is deeply aware of the difficulties intelligence must face to find truth. Love is the path to truth for it is love that fosters the yearning for truth. On his own road to truth, Augustine meets several companions. Deeply in love with truth, he never finds himself alone. A wide social network will help him walk with unparalleled depth that inner road where his adventure to discover truth grows. It is not a thoroughly planned quest like in Scolasticism, but it builds and feeds itself on deeply authentic experiences, critical reflexion and an voracious desire to find truth. Augustine wants not to deceive nor to be deceived. Life and thought are entwined in this philosopher of truth. Embedded in the culture of his times —mostly literary and based on the study of the classics’ rhetoric and philosophy—, Saint Augustine redefines and widens the search for truth to include Christian wisdom. His quest for truth leads him to the Truth and to embrace it with love in order to pursue hiw own life´s journey anchored in Truth.