Sobre San Agustín y el "amor"repercusiones en las conceptualizaciones del "amor" en Rousseau y Kierkegaard. Una relectura histórico-filosófica del "amor" desde la crítica feminista

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This doctoral research, titled: About St. Augustine and “love”: repercussions on the conceptualization of “love” in Rousseau and Kierkegaard. A thorough reading of the historical and phylosophical definition of love from the feminist point of view, explores the concept of love coined by Augustine of Hippo, with the main goal of tracking the epistemological Augustinian constructs about love in Jean Jacques Rousseau and Soren Kierkegaard’s philosophical theories. This formulation is justified in the introduction chapter, alongside the methodological documental use and structure of its four chapters. Agustine’s neoplatonic influences are analyzed in the second chapter: both Plotinus’ One and central concepts of the stoical school, which reformulates some of Plato’s discourses about love, developed in the Symposium and Phaedrus, and incorporates Jean Cassien’s téchne about the modulation of sexual desire.Most of central elements of Hippo’s thinker love philosophy compose a dual metaphysic of love, that conceptualises two opposite types of thereof: a true one, the caritas love, and an erroneus one, cupiditas. The former rejects the singular erotic love and, conversely, praises the ideality of love for love, which fosters the love fusion between loving subject and loved subject within heterosexual matrimonial relationships, able to reach the mastery and fathers authority on religious communities...