O amor a Deus num filósofo “ateu”

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Maria Luísa Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2008.1894

This article analyses certain lines of thinking of St. Augustine and Spinoza, philosophers who, though their point of departure is the same desire to reach God, diverge profoundly in their interests, the themes treated and in the objectives they set themselves in their philosophical work. They do, however, come together in the value they attach to the inquietude that inhabits every man – the unquiet heart of Augustine and the conatus of Spinoza. The anthropological thinking of each of these philosophers has as a consequence a given conception of divinity. In confronting the divergences between the personal God of Augustine and the God/Nature of Spinoza, certain problems arise as to the religiosity of the latter, as well as the pertinence of his designation as an atheist philosopher.