After studying Plato and Augustine one may say that they are shadows of each other. They both strive for similar things, such as aspirations and always trying to achieve perfection. Plato and Augustine both want to live in a just society, but their opinions of what just should be are not the same. Augustine disagreed with Plato when it came to politics and how religion should play into a just society.
Plato preferred to have his main focus on politics. In class we read a passage where we learned that Augustine preferred to focus on personal excellence and self-deflection. They both tried to focus one and do what was the right thing. Good and just were the two things they focused on, but since they each had their own definition and belief of each of these concepts, different methods were used by the two.
Plato and Augustine had their own ideas of how politics should play into society. While reading The Republic, I noticed that Plato really pushed a perfect society as his belief could be where there were certain classes. Each class had it's own jobs that they were good at and not interfere with another class. By doing this the society would work in harmony and that is how it is just.…show more content… We read in the book that each of us has our own free will, we are moved by loves or desires, which are sinful at times, and we all want peace in the end. We all have free will, to follow the laws or Gods laws or to make our own path. This free will allows us to chose to behave badly or obey God. God is not responsible for the evil we do. The next one, we are moved by love or desire, people at times do evil, this is one factor that can cause us to do so, but it falls back to the free will concept. Peace is something most people want, having disorder on this planet is hard on all of us and in the end we all just want a peaceful
