Dispute between Aurelius Augustinus and academism as a “probable hermeneutics” context of platonism history

The article is dedicated to the study of the features of St. Augustine’s polemic with sceptical academicians, as well as the historical hermeneutics of the Platonic Academy philosophical ideas from the time of its foundation by the great Athenian philosopher up to the era of Marcus Tullius Cicero, presented in Augustine’s first philosophical opus “Contra Academicos”. The main task of the article is to identify the interrelationships between Augustine’s polemical and hermeneutic discourses. In other words to clarify, how the conclusions, that Augustine comes to as a result of the polemic with scepticism, affect the perception of the three historical periods of the Platonic Academy. Scepticism is given as the only possible answer to the broadening Stoic influence in the Middle Academy. The essence of Augustine’s anti-sceptical polemic is formulated by the author of the article as four main principles: reductio ad absurdum of sceptical positions regarding knowledge and perception, through the divine argument, through the ignorance argument, and through the dialectic’s argument. Given that, the conclusion on the impossibility of a full scepticism realization is made. The presented historical and philosophical “probable hermeneutics” of the academic tradition unites the names and systems of such great philosophers of Antiquity and the era of Hellenism as: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Plotinus – being a consequence of the conviction, mentioned above, and speaking in favor of Augustine’s philosophical talent.