%0 Journal Article %T La Ciudad de Dios desde la perspectiva de la raz¨®n: la cuarta politeia de la antig¨¹edad %A Vel¨¢squez %A ¨®scar %J Teolog¨ªa y vida %D 2011 %I Pontificia Universidad Cat¨®lica de Chile %R 10.4067/S0049-34492011000100010 %X this article reflects on the relationship between the concepts of politeia, res publica and civitas in four major works: the republic by plato, politics by aristotle, republic by cicero and city of god by saint augustine, with special attention on the latter, insofar as it is inserted in a tradition in which cicero occupies a privileged position of a link with greek thought, and which, in the end, had profound repercussions on the western world view. %K augustine. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0049-34492011000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en