The wisdom as a necessary correction of human’s knowledge and a source of felicity according to Saint Augustine Cover Image

Mądrość konieczną korektą ludzkiej wiedzy i źródłem szczęścia według św. Augustyna
The wisdom as a necessary correction of human’s knowledge and a source of felicity according to Saint Augustine

Author(s): Edward Sienkiewicz
Subject(s): Philosophy of Religion, Systematic Theology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego

Summary/Abstract: Every man wants to be happy and is striving for felicity. According to Augustinus, it is perceived by those who learn the truth. However, only the one is happy, who is not suffering from any shortage, e.g. is not making any mistake in learning. Such learning as well as wisdom, characteristic for happy people, is not comming from learning things or phenomena, since they cannot be learned infallibly. Philosophy, liable to many mistakes, does not guarantee learning the whole truth. The truth without any failing is only God and only He can give a man felicity. This truth, available to a man with a clear heart, e.g. described in the perspective of faith and morality, is living in his interior. Felicity and wisdom is achieved by the man, who learns the truth in his soul.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 151-160
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish