# De libero arbitrio, begun after conversion, argues free choice against Manichaean dualism as a public dialogue

Date: 388

## The fact

The instrument is that early book. Later books of the same work and later anti-Pelagian writings qualify freedom under grace; those qualifications are named, not used to delete 388. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He wrote a dialogue later used both for free choice and, in later books, for a harder grace. He did not pass a voting statute. High on the early text.

## Context

Evodius is a named interlocutor in the dialogue as transmitted. Sharing the argument with him is required. Manichaean years are the dualism being answered. Ad Simplicianum 396 is the turn toward a harder election-file, stored as cost. The setting of De libero arbitrio, begun after conversion, argues free choice against Manichaean dualism as a public dialogue is the public file around 0388-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The attached driver is democratic-resilience. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, free will at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, De libero arbitrio neighbourhood at https://iep.utm.edu/augustin/ (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, free will (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, De libero arbitrio neighbourhood (https://iep.utm.edu/augustin/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, free will (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Improving path from De libero arbitrio, begun after conversion, argues free choice against Manichaean dualism as a public dialogue on 0388-01-01. A public argument that evil is not a rival god and that choice is real is a responsibility-and-agency path stored on the democratic-resilience driver as civic-moral agency. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Shared responsibility is part of De libero arbitrio, begun after conversion, argues free choice against Manichaean dualism as a public dialogue. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0388-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of De libero arbitrio, begun after conversion, argues free choice against Manichaean dualism as a public dialogue under 0388-01-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of De libero arbitrio, begun after conversion, argues free choice against Manichaean dualism as a public dialogue under 0388-01-01.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Later anti-Pelagian qualifications are a different hardness. Do not erase the early book. Do not twin with predestination as a second identical treatise. Mixed effects of De libero arbitrio, begun after conversion, argues free choice against Manichaean dualism as a public dialogue are separate paths.

## People

- Augustine Of Hippo: https://factrail.ai/people/augustine-of-hippo

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://iep.utm.edu/augustin/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-de-libero-arbitrio