Augustine View Of Government

Augustine in Political Writings consistently remarks that what truly matters is not the political institutions or any other rule, what only matters is the rationale for human relationship. Augustine holds allegiance to the God and only to him and due to that he holds a reasonable view of government and law. Augustine does not seem to have a clear definition of the state so it is only understood as a cities or society’s governing political apparatus. He is uninterested in the type of regime that will rule because he is more interested in how God’s rules works its way through politics. He believes that because humans are full of distorted loves and sins there is bound to be conflicts among them and this is one of the reasons he suggest that …show more content…
If each individual gives everything to God than they will be happy because everything good or bad come from him. So even if you do something bad since you will not be hold accountable because you gave up your life to enjoy the happiness. Augustine makes a statement in Book XII, chapter 9 that states as following, “human race came from one man whom God created first; that Holy Scripture has a marvelous authority throughout the world and among all peoples” (Augustine, Book XII, Ch 9, 87). This assertion confirms his stance on the fact that God created the human race from one man to show that everyone has the same pre-destined point but it’s the sins that we commit that drifts us from one another. The citizens of a state are bound to unite and make sure that they understand all the things surrounding them are from one ruler. Furthermore anything that is good in nature is by God and him alone because he is “the author of natures and not of defects” (Augustine, Book XIII, Ch 14, 94). In contrast anything that is evil is the result of human being corrupted, thus if a person is corrupt than he has done it on his own accord but if he later on gives birth to corrupted offspring than miseries starts for all human race. This …show more content…
Pope Francis believes that failure to understand the world causes the current social and ecological crisis. He makes the argument similar to Plato that our decisions on the basis of good and bad leads us to reason in utilitarian terms. This he suggests that any reduction to utility will result to manipulation and this can be overcome by participation in the system. Pope Francis similar to Plato believes that beautiful objects and other such sensible things make us think about other forms of beauty and eventually reach the end to the God. In politics, God’s care is through a political authority that represents everyone so Francis thinks that it is necessary that we have rulers that unite people and take care of them