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True Justice: Augustine Vs. Reality

Fritz Streiff
21.9.06
SSC 151

True Justice: Augustine versus Reality

In his book "The City of God", Augustine (354 – 430) described two metaphorical cities: an earthly city and a heavenly one. In both there are forms of justice to be found. The former will be described as the form of justice of the ordinary people living in the earthly city. Accordingly, the latter shall be characterized as the form of justice to be met in the city of God. Finally, it will be demonstrated that only the city of God's justice completely agrees with Augustine's perception of true justice.

Firstly, there is the earthly city which is inhabited by the ordinary human being. It is corrupted by the nature of man and full of conflicts, wars, quarrels and personal pride. Furthermore, what matters in the earthly city is the love of the self rather than the love for God. According to this, Augustine writes in his book "The City of God" that it is necessary to

"restrain him [the human being] from......


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