Antropologia de Agostinho de Hipona, fortitudo corporis na hierarquia dos bens criados.

The study aim to investigate the work of Augustine of Hippo the foundation for a philosophical anthropology. The anthropological problem formulated by Augustine compound body/soul, as an integral part of the human condition stands out with some fluctuations in the evolution of his writings. First of all, Augustine assumes a prone position on the negativity of the body and its place in the evaluative scale of the assets created to distrust the stimuli and requests that the body receives the externality of the senses that can divert the man on the itinerary of wisdom and truth. Therefore, in the wake of the Pauline literature hiponense takes the body positivity as seat of the soul, thus occupying a prominent place and estimated in the order of creatures. De quantitate animae (work whose date of composition is between 387 and 388), Augustine confirms this notion of soul as substance endowed with reason and therefore properly able to rule the body because of its greatness.