Resumen de Les limites de l'écriture philosophique chez Cicéron (Lucullus) et chez Augustin (Contra Academicos)
The aim of this article is to show both Augustine's dependence on Cicero and his independence from his model. In the Lucullus, Cicero divides his discourse into two parts, one dialectical, the other much more literary, because he believes that philosophical reflection should not do without the resources of persuasive and eloquent speech. In his Contra Academicos III, Augustine goes from the refutation of skeptical theses to a sort of explanatory myth, which he recognizes as subjective but it seems to him necessary to mark the limits of reason. The purpose of Cicero is literary and aesthetic, that of Augustine has a much clearer historical and ontological ambition. Neither admits that dialectical reason can be the only requisite of a discourse in search of the truth.
