Compare How Hobbes And Augustine Think The Condition Of War Arises And Defend One Author's Account Of `ordinary' Morality As An Antedote For It
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Compare how Hobbes and Augustine Think The Condition of War Arises and Defend One
Author's Account of `ordinary' Morality As An Antedote For It
Augustine believes that the condition of war arises when the perfectly
ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God is disrupted (The City of God, 690)
whereas ....
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.... Augustine, humans seek an object of love they can't lose. The problem
with that to humans is that humans can't provide that to other humans completely.
Only God can and that in turn causes hostility among humans. The love of God,
then, is the only way humans can completely satisfy all four virtues and have
eternal peace. Eternal peace is where faith, love, and hope are to be enjoyed,
such as in The City of God.
In Book XIX, Augustinian social theory summarizes the principle of
ordere ....
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