Augustine's early writings are particularly interesting. Augustine asks what is the purpose of education. The central theme is “theodicy”, to use a contemporary expression. If God's wisdom governs the world and there is no second God interfering in this world order, then the problem of whether there is fairness in the course of the world becomes more important. Augustine asks questions like this. "Why does he who is ready to give gifts need money abundantly, while the mean and mangy moneylender sleeps on his buried treasure; or why extravagance spends and wastes a vast inheritance, while that the weeping beggar hardly gets a coin all day; or why unmerited honor exalts a man, and an impeccable life goes unnoticed in the crowd The almighty sovereign of divine Providence must be defended against all. objections based on the apparent indifference of the course of the world to human demands for justice. Augustine answers this question in the Platonic way. According to Augustine, evil is a simple form, caused by our inability to observe the cosmos as a whole and. by the interdependence between a single event and the state of the entire world If a state of affairs is measured in isolation, it can give rise to the idea that the world order is imperfect and that God does not care about humans. However, those who are capable of understanding the world as a whole understand how each event has meaning by contributing to the perfection of the whole. The man, Augustine asserts, who is capable of having a true vision of the harmonious constitution of the world, knows that there is no evil. Achieving this vision is the goal of education. What does it mean to perceive the cosmos in its entirety? After its conversion ...... middle of article ...... it results from a dialectical research. In the system of syntheses and analyzes which characterizes the sciences, philosophy recognizes the attempt of reason to establish the structure of the one in many. This attempt cannot succeed, because the sciences are essentially linked to an expansive thought apprehending things one by one, while the logical world is characterized by the co-presence of the whole which requires intellectual intuition as its own mode of apprehension. However, the philosopher is aware that the power which impels us to create sciences and, therefore, to imitate the logical world in the realm of disjointed thought, must either itself be one of many, or, at least, know this structure. , that is, knowing what the world looks like from a divine point of view. Such a person, says Augustine, can no longer be hindered by the sorrows, perils or adversities of fate..