True justice according to St. Augustine
Augustine lived during the fall of the Roman Empire and had a Roman education. As can be concluded from the title, Augustine was a Christian, but not for whole his life. He got baptized after a period of personal drama, caused by a personal intellectual and spiritual journey. After his baptism, he lived as a priest in Hippo, North Africa. In this period, he wrote a vast amount of literature about mostly theological subjects. Therefore, Augustine is more a theologian than a philosopher like Plato and Aristotle. His most important work is The City of God, which he wrote after the sack of Rome in 410. He describes in this book that there are two kinds of people: members of the Earthly City and members of the City of God. The members of the Earthly City love their selves and the world is their home. The members of the City of God truly love God. For them, their life on earth is only a pilgrimage towards the heavenly City of God. And only in the......
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