Many ideas, practices, and beliefs have helped shape the world throughout different time periods in history. Two of the greatest thinkers of all time, Plato and St. Augustine have immensely impacted the development of not only Western culture, but the way the world thinks and reacts. Plato and St. Augustine influenced society by the significant and very important writings of their own. For St. Augustine, who was born in A.D. 354 and eventually became the Father of the early church, City of God and Confessions, helped embrace his idea in which mankind needs to seek and find God in everyday life because the world is full of sinful nature. Augustine also claimed that men display a sense of selfishness, as evidenced by their willingly choose
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Plato, unlike St. Augustine, was not a Christian who believed in God salvific work, but rather took a few concepts and applied them to successfully live a complete life. He believed that if you were a man of truth and justice, you were saved from all ruins, sin, and destruction. In addition, he claimed that just brought self-satisfaction of good moral character in which you acknowledged the idea of limited truth. Plato was so high on justice and truth he said, “Unjust things are worse than killing.” (Apology 30d) Rather than arguing in which killing another human being is the worse thing in the world, Plato believed that making false statements and unjust actions is worse than killing another person in society. Justice and truth brought a sense of equality or fairness to society, and Plato was all about wanting people to make good decisions that affect everyday life. Besides justice and truth, Plato spoke and wrote heavily on wisdom and knowledge in which makes you fully and completely human. In Apology, Plato makes it evident that being wise and full of knowledge will provide the best opportunity for happiness and satisfaction. “I say it’s the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue (wisdom) every day, and the other things you’ve heard me discussing and examining myself and others about.” (Apology 38a) Doing what is considered righteous will lead you to the spiritual and physical desires of a human, not desires out of pure self-pleasure that will run in with
Plato, unlike St. Augustine, was not a Christian who believed in God salvific work, but rather took a few concepts and applied them to successfully live a complete life. He believed that if you were a man of truth and justice, you were saved from all ruins, sin, and destruction. In addition, he claimed that just brought self-satisfaction of good moral character in which you acknowledged the idea of limited truth. Plato was so high on justice and truth he said, “Unjust things are worse than killing.” (Apology 30d) Rather than arguing in which killing another human being is the worse thing in the world, Plato believed that making false statements and unjust actions is worse than killing another person in society. Justice and truth brought a sense of equality or fairness to society, and Plato was all about wanting people to make good decisions that affect everyday life. Besides justice and truth, Plato spoke and wrote heavily on wisdom and knowledge in which makes you fully and completely human. In Apology, Plato makes it evident that being wise and full of knowledge will provide the best opportunity for happiness and satisfaction. “I say it’s the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue (wisdom) every day, and the other things you’ve heard me discussing and examining myself and others about.” (Apology 38a) Doing what is considered righteous will lead you to the spiritual and physical desires of a human, not desires out of pure self-pleasure that will run in with