Abstract
This study explores the notion of wisdom, and philosophy as love for wisdom in the early Augustine's works that he wrote during his vacation in 386 at the Cassiciacum estate near Milan. In these dialogues inspired by Neoplatonism and Cicero, wisdom is introduced as an until now unachieved, yet not principally unachievable ideal that gives the focus to concentrated life formed by education in the liberal arts.
Here Augustine first and foremost seeks to deal with the skepticism of the new Academy that somewhat resembles his own idea of the wisdom reserved for God and of the soul separated from the flesh. In contrast to the skeptical understanding of wisdom that consists of the permanent quest without essentially complying with anything, he strives to keep open a hope for an authentic finding that motivates the quest.