"Chi sono io?": seguendo Agostino nel cammino che ci porta verso Dio

This article explores the Augustinian question “Who am I?” as a foundational inquiry into personal identity, not as an abstract philosophical puzzle, but as a lived, existential search marked by restlessness, desire, and interiority. Drawing primarily on the Confessions, the author traces how Augustine frames identity as a dynamic process involving memory, love, and relationship. The human self is not merely rational or autonomous, but a being shaped by what it loves (ordo amoris), and rooted in the memory that opens to the presence of God. The article shows how Augustine’s thought remains powerfully relevant today, offering a vision of the self as relational, finite yet open to the infinite, and ultimately called to communion with God. In an age of fragmented or self-constructed identities, Augustine proposes an inner path of truth, memory, and grace.