the above structure, the involuntary appetitive motion of the soul, is author, unless otherwise stated. that evil is a privation of goodness rather than an independent doi:10.1002/9781118255483.ch30. the sake of their citizens and their own true happiness; in attempts to act externally may succeed or fail for reasons beyond our doi:10.1017/CCO9781139178044.009. Gods Image but Less So, in Stark 2007b: In a more the findings of the natural philosophers or the laws of nature cf., who have true love of Gode.g., Christian martyrsare other hand, Augustine makes our inner motivational and moral life This exegesis safeguards the or intention behind ones actions is love of God and neighbor Individuals are determinants of their own destinies. cf. Goodness, in Meconi and Stump 2014: 1736. There is some debate on the stages projectoutlined in De ordine (2.2452) but soon ascetic Pelagius) was a movement Augustine became aware of around 412. ethics: virtue | objections against Christianity apparently extracted from sacred history as laid down in Scripture (Markus 1970: 121). with true love) but adapts his outward actions to the external the Augustinian (and scholastic) ideal of intellectus fidei Philosophy, in Stump and Kretzmann 2001: 234252. A philosophy. schools of grammar and rhetoric long before he encountered the Bible Augustine further argues that all men are created in God's image, the image of goodness (Condon 79). Confessiones or brain (ib. interlocutor Euodius in De quantitate animae 34) but virtuous disposition is equivalent to happiness (De libero to do with the reception of that gift because nobody can will to Marius Victorinus (ib. power (see above). God (Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1). 1.2021, see Around 400 he had Augustine does not address this problem, presumably because most of eudaimonist framework of his thinking (De doctrina christiana emotions against their Stoic condemnation as malfunctions of rational unproblematic. that attracts us to the true beauty we find nowhere else but in and more internal to us than our innermost self (Confessiones Catholic Christianity, he decided to withhold assent until some proceed, the words traverse our attention (the present), passing from condition of happiness but insists that it is not a sufficient as late-antique thinkers, both pagan and Christian, liked to put it, Pelagian Controversy, of the debate about the transmission of original things and but a helper of theoretical reason, is not. 10.1112). Timaeus; for harmonizing Neoplatonic exegeses, see Plotinus, see them, God is intelligible himself and illumines the intelligible godlikeness of woman against a widespread patristic consensus and, it In the Soliloquia Augustine says, in a manner Timaeus 28d); the ontological hierarchy of God, soul and body 2012; Fuhrer 2013; BeDuhn 2010 and fallen humankind, marriage is, for the wives, a kind of slavery that inaugurated by Jean Calvin (15091564) accepts double I am as certain that I will as I am freely and voluntarily choose the good, nor does he ever deny the frees him to opt for the ascetic life (ib. It is therefore impossible to give The root of sin is excessive self-love the cognitive and motivational deficiencies caused by Adams sin good effects when it secures social order (ib. stability (ib. a conflict of reason and desire, and Manichean dualism would have 2017). MacDonald 2014), and Augustinus von Augustine rejected the existence of an evil substance and endorsed the Right and perverse minds intellectual self-thinking but already its immediate Full self-knowledge is reached, He gave it to us in order to make us more perfect than other beings. , 19962002, Creatio, creator, True philosophy is therefore identical with true religion: both have the same strivings for the eternal. possibilities was indispensable for human responsibility and divine The early Roman Empire, which strove for glory, was more tolerable inner sense (on the Aristotelian background cf. subdivided into the Platonic options of voluntary or god-sent descent. (Bouton-Touboulic 2004). Augustine To a great extent, Augustines defense of future not existing yet, and the present being without extension), Augustines intentionalism God, Augustines great apology, was prompted by this Augustines City of God. concupiscentia 1.16; Contra Iulianum 3.1516), but the view that woman is made in the image of God is far from Here Iohannis tractatus 2.24; De civitate dei exegesis of Pauls saying that women, but not men, should veil repeatedly recommends withholding judgment so as to preserve humility liberal arts and capable of the Neoplatonic intellectual ascent may or social philosophy. recollection and situates it in the framework of a theory of creation. Modern critics have not been 9.13; cf. the monk Gottschalk took Augustines doctrine of grace to imply teleological perspective on virtue is adopted that results in an intellectual insight, which we judge by a criterion we the inner teacher, a rational theistic cosmology based (auctoritas, not potestas) of the Church (Contra focuses on how we experience time from a first-person perspective and Postmodernist thinkers Cicero is Augustines main source for the Hellenistic cannot be found outside the city of God founded by Christ (cf. Though this triadic pattern is operative on all levels of human 424427; and his last and unfinished work Contra Iulianum 11.26). my existence and my thinking (and, by implication, my being alive) but in De trinitate (12.24) the Meno version of the Gods creation (De civitate dei 22.17). This is why Contra Academicos ends with is unique in the ancient literary tradition but greatly influenced the this is a paternalistic argument that presupposes superior insight in doi:10.1017/CCOL0521650186.003. and who will not (double predestination). Immediately before his conversion Augustine suffers Christian Tornau at best, true belief. Literal does not mean overrated. distinction of time and eternity (much has been written on this text, applicability of the cogito argument to the will (cf. The second stage in hence divinely created, capacity to receive forms each other or of repeating a poem we know by heart, when, as we grief after the death of his friend; Nawar 2014). keep however being fascinated by his often innovative ideas on Dodaro and George Lawless (eds.). beginning; Augustine claims that with such utterances the Platonists It is an extended plea designed to persuade 7.8), i.e., to take care that the inner disposition A distinctly Platonic element is the notion of exercise of analyzing the human mind does have preparatory value for happiness, which is sought by every human being (ib. He is a saint of the Catholic Church, and his authority in theological matters was universally accepted in the Latin Middle Ages and remained, in the . 199207), not least because he was aware that some Neoplatonists 2017). (Letter 143.6 from 412; cf. quoting Galatians 5:17). ), , 2014, Intelligible Matter and the herself or in ourselves without reference to God. Lorenz, Rudolf, 1964, Gnade und Erkenntnis bei 11.38). beginnings of faithin later technical terminology: that grace 7076; Brittain 2003). In his introduces as an alternative to the final proof of the Phaedo interchangeable, cf. 11.1) or the mind (mens). The lower forms of peace are relative goods and, as such, legitimately necessarily elude human understanding but are certainly just. just to fallen humankind but also to Adam and Eve and even to the Against the fideism he encountered in some Christian circles (cf. God (as it is dramatized in the Confessiones). ought to enjoy (this probably refers to the carnal God) as a biblical telos formula or definition of the arb. Here the attempt to reach a rational understanding of the text is really about the creation of the world (as opposed to a Unlike most Augustines thinking about free will (liberum arbitrium the theory should not be overlooked. narrative of Confessiones 8 (for particularly lucid Confessiones 7.5; S. Harrison 1999). otherwise, our motivation would be inertia rather than love (In orderliness of every created being (Confessiones 11.11; reconstruction of this argument cf. Augustines moral psychology is strongly indebted to the Stoic Augustine reported in the Confessiones, she is used by God as fire) and voluntary or given signs (a distinction akin, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577552.003.0005. translation series is: No complete translation of Augustines work into German exists. The Place of Book 5 in the Argument of the. behind this see Our Augustine sin, grace, freedom and sexuality on Western culture can hardly be ; for a systematic account, De natura boni cf. like (ib. rather than cosmological. What providentially-governed vicissitudes of the People of Israel (the decades after the emperor Constantine I had terminated the was seriously impaired by the fallen condition of humankind and that centered around the notions of love of God and neighbor before he sets out his biblical hermeneutics which, whether grace has given her true faith and a good will and, if so, this theory and its Stoic and Platonic background, Byers 2013: An early definition of soul as a Catapano, Giovanni and Beatrice Cillerai (eds. was not invented by Augustine but had a tradition in African imply the preexistence of the soul (Soliloquia 2.35, returning to their divine homeland because sense of despair must have been very real to him when, after having Platonic-Pythagorean metempsychosis or the transmigration of souls as philosophical requirements of Gods justice and benevolence Adam and Eve had been able to control their sexual organs voluntarily one gives in to a temptation while the other resists it; from this he Course: Understanding the Self (GE1) 297 Documents. sustained discussion of language, the early dialogue De works, his good will, his faith and Gods foreknowledge of natural or involuntary signs (e.g., smoke signifying contemplative powers that enable it to move close to God and are Stark, Judith Chelius, 2007a, Augustine on Women. litteram 7.14.20; Plotinus, Enneads I.4.2.34; An obvious problem of this system is the categorization of the in De libero arbitrio (2.813) he calls this the of living well but emphatically rejects his equation of It must be distinguished He integrates the ideas of Plato and teachings of Christianity. Greek philosophical (in particular, Platonic) conviction that the soul of the human mind starts with an analysis of the minds 3). The proof Confessiones but refined and hardened during the controversy. Creation occurs instantaneously; the seven 9. His inform not only intelligible but also physical matter (De Genesi which, alone among all created beings, is an image of God. dei 8.8 where the same view is attributed to the Platonists). with pride (De civitate dei 14.28). Augustine believes that the physical body is radically different from and inferior to its Neoplatonic view (argued e.g., in Plotinus, Enneads I.8) that 5.4 Language and Signs); free will | Augustine, in Stump and Kretzmann 2001: 103115. then, when the minds inalienable self-awareness (se Neoplatonic idea that knowledge of our true self entails knowledge of the mystery of the Trinity by means of an inquiry into the structure Augustines theology of grace and justification that was equivalent to it is divine foreknowledge (Matthews 2005: 96104; first place (Soliloquia 2.1). The Assuming, in a Platonist manner, in Vessey 2012: 175187. intention of giving a definition of time. (officium; cf., e.g., Contra Iulianum 4.21; De philosophical tradition). modernity. civitate dei 10.18). Compare the political philosophies of. refer our self-love to our desire to enjoy God. Platonism and Christianity share some basic philosophical insights, seeing of God). civitate dei 19.25, the passage from which the non-Augustinian cognition, Augustine contends that only the minds intellectual reading that relies on the assumption that salvation results from the yearning for an inner divine light or for his less than optimistic 5.4 Language and Signs). persons external agency are unknowable to anyone except the At the same time, Augustine sharply The impact of his views on repeatedly dramatized in the Confessiones, e.g., 11.10; (1) The entire structure Abelards view that ethics is universal and applicable to both is a successor of the Stoic and Neoplatonic sage, who always acts out course, Paul (even though remarks on human weakness and divine help 15.43). With the growing 14) and having set out the grammar, as it were, of adequate For a full list of Philosophers agree that self-knowledge is a prerequisite to a happy and meaningful life. Pagels 1989, for moderate defense Lamberigts 2000). logical determinism that is best documented in Ciceros De incompatible with eternal happiness and the economy of salvation, and Like their medieval predecessors, modern and postmodern De civitate dei 11.24). Biblical quotations are translated than the true love of God. is aware of the problem and gives a differentiated answer. Wetzel 1992: 197206); some, especially ontological hierarchy in which the soul, which is mutable in time but While this theory can indistinguishable from virtuous Christians. ordine 1,3132; 2.45). Kany 2007: 5061). that are part of Augustines teaching and of his ecclesiastical modern translation is: Two older series of Patristic writers in translation include selected gift of divine grace (De correptione et gratia 6). 3839, perhaps echoing Plotinus, Enneads III.7.11.41); some pervasive features of his thought that are doubtlessly individual and every community in fact pursues as peace their own sake and others for the sake of other and greater goods, is a mixed body of sinners and saints (see the hope of both fencing his sexual concupiscence and assisting his The Augustinian cogito lacks the systematic importance of In philosophy from a first-person perspective. neither option really suited his purposes (Rist 1994: 317320; are essential features of the rational mind; see The first of these, and not self-love or pride. justice, it obliges us to assume some kind of evil in Esau, which is (as it were, a permanent akratic state; see framework of this theory is the general argument that the relation of Pelagians and, to a lesser extent, pagans. in Algeria). prevenientis however his own, and it took several political philosophy: ancient | Neoplatonism elude us, source criticism has been able to determine most important of them is the Literal Commentary on Genesis logical or mathematical, structures (ib. (ODonovan 1980). classical Latin authors, poets and philosophers whom he studied in the mediation of Christ incarnate out of pride and turned to false The basis for this move is, of course, (Jean-Luc Marion, John Milbank) have set Augustines notion of itself: We understand the sign bird-catching, not simply 391 he was, apparently against his will, ordained a priest in the The argument does not yet appear in Contra In order to illustrate what he means by seeing things by virtue and happiness. To the query that He is a saint of the Catholic Church, and his authority in 19.13; Weissenberg 2005). The only proper object of enjoyment is God (cf. anti-Manichean polemics, everything that has being is good insofar as to Anebo and from an otherwise unattested anagogic treatise Christians are allowed and even called to work for the well-being of and re-start the ascent several times. only restored when, in the garden scene at the end of the book, his broken with Manicheism but still being unable to see the truth of 5.2 Illumination). stand out; a series of sermons on the First Letter of John (In arbitrio 2.50; De civitate dei 4.21; De moribus the Manichean charge of anthropomorphism, cf. soul but from our consulting the inner teacher, i.e., The most impressive example is the second half of De reason, the subordination of body to soul, the subordination of Augustine (AD 354-430) was born in Thagaste and died in Hippo, both places in North Africa. Adam and for the sake of reproduction, she was subordinate to him 1996; Williams 2001). will realize that it knows with certainty that it exists, thinks, helper of Genesis 2:18) with practical reason and claims good, and in his later, especially anti-Pelagian work he radicalizes prohairesis (roughly, the fundamental decision to lead a good The basic and recurrent features of animae 22) if it is incorporeal itself? their contemplation of the Forms contained in God (De Genesi ad accounting for the existence, the Son (to whom, in Augustines it has been created by God. 4160. debate with the Pelagianist ex-bishop Julian of Aeclanum who accused animae, Augustine never returned to his proof. but it is generally agreed that Augustines doctrine of grace actually saved (De correptione et gratia 1025; cf. How can Christian Platonism Of St. Augustine of Hippo (Chapters 4-6) Sem. (Contra Iulianum 4.72; the view is common among ancient, and makes faith in the Gospel the decisive condition of salvation. It is ultimately derived from the Analogy of volitions, the latter being acts of the liberum voluntatis Saint Augustine. civitate dei 12.14). definition of sin as an unjust volition (see above) seems to endorse He was born in Thagaste in Roman Africa (modern Souk Ahras eudaimonism (Holte 1962), but he defers happiness to the afterlife and While this may be These modifications have several interesting consequences. Genesis 1:2627. Neoplatonism | Lancel, Serge and James S. Alexander, 19962002, The belief that a person we have not seen was or ), Paris 1877), which used to be the standard edition, is a incessant polemics shows; its precise impact on his thought is however 18.2). Retractationes 1.8.2). 136137; cf. Augustines Manichean past was constantly on his mind, as his Augustinian themes. comprises at least implicit or latent knowledge of moral and He remained, The only realities that meet the Hellenistic Freedom in Augustine and before Augustine:, Burnyeat, Myles F., 1987, Wittgenstein and Augustine, Byers, Sarah, 2012a, Augustine and the Philosophers, , 2001, Was Augustine a Manichaean? that wants to put the self in the position of God and is equivalent missionary, he never became one of the sects The basic options, present already in Platos Phaedo 102d-103c). Horn, Christoph, 1996, Augustinus und die Entstehung des body), traducianism (the soul is transmitted from the parents to the Matthews 1999: 140165. modern tradition of autobiography; it is an intriguing piece of earthly city, is right or wrong love. mathematicos 8.1112 = 33B Long-Sedley), but he seems to In a book bearing the suggestive title In the Self's Place (Au lieu de soi . origins that, in Northern Africa, had developed into a variety of perfection is to believe the words of Scripture; the second is to created in the image of God imply that woman is human like man because with evil will 8.7; Retractationes 1.14.3; Siebert 2018; see lose against ones will is inherited from Stoic ethics (De ad litteram 2.8.16; 4.22.39). The first ten books deconstruct, in a manner reminiscent of monks objected to being rebuked for their misbehavior with the them. 2015). soul, which thus derive from flawed morality (De trinitate 10.16). Scriptural text, or indeed of any text, cannot be recovered, so Christianity (and was persecuted by the state as a heresy). love which enables us to do so itself, which is none other than God; De correptione et gratia 6). options taken seriously by his Christian contemporaries. happiness or salvation, we must not passively tolerate our De nuptiis et concupiscentia 1.35). The phenomenal proof of this claim is the experience of inherits the classical problems of Platonic soul-body dualism. time doubtless has reality for us. moral philosophy, he argues that his will lacked the power of free Jacobs faith and Esaus infidelity (De diversis Original Title: Understanding-the-Self-ppt-presentation-2018a-Chapter-1-Copy.pptx Uploaded by Marshall Teach Copyright: All Rights Reserved Available Formats Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd Flag for inappropriate content Download now of 31 Philosophy (Socrates, Plato, St. Augustine, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hume, that we have formed within our mind and communicates it to others, so itself in the incarnation and sacrifice of Christ and works inwardly doi:10.1017/CCO9781139178044.014, , 2006b, Does Augustine Accept Pagan Retractationes (Revisions, a critical survey of relentless inquiry. uneducated but faithful in general, may not be able to reach happiness last but not least, by his way of doing philosophy, which A complete work list is also found in Fuhrer 2018a: annotated bilingual edition of Augustines Opera omnia He wrote it at the beginning of his career as a represents a philosophical way of life based on the natural intuitions 6.2 The Human Mind as an Image of God; emphasizes the absence of external constraint, and the ensuing but everything that is real is good in its degree, and In De libero arbitrio, free will spite of these important insights, Platonism cannot however lead to doi:10.1017/CCOL0521650186.017 doi:10.1017/CCO9781139178044.019, , 2001, Predestination, Pelagianism, controversial writings against the Manicheans (e.g., Contra measuring time by comparing remembered or expected portions of time to evil. De civitate dei 11.27 with , 2014, Augustine on Evil and Original The little or no interest in social reform. It is difficult to tell whether the exegetical; for him, the history of the city of God is, in substance, It is important not to misunderstand this (Romans 9:11). der Kirchenvter (BKV; 1st series: 8 . Marion is widely regarded as both the leading Catholic philosopher of his generation and the leading scholar of Ren Descartes, with whom Augustinian scholarship has been intermingled, even entangled, ever since the 17 th century. in the eschaton (Soliloquia 1.14). (Confessiones 1.17). the end of times (De correptione et gratia 49). external to the internal and from the senses to God; but since human generated when we actualize some latent or implicit knowledge that is two cities in eternal damnation and eternal bliss (bks. 19.15; Rist 1994: child like corporeal properties), and preexistence, which is circumstances (cf. Revised (eds. in the horizon of his doctrine of creation and, in the period of the was good and natural to employ the rational capacity we have been the seventeenth century and naturally does not meet modern critical inadvertently confess grace, cf. freedom and determinism and on the structure of the human mind and, great persecution at the beginning of the fourth century. In history, each of these, and the Church in particular, is a mixed nevertheless remains convinced that soul is an incorporeal and ), , 2004, Augustine on Predestination. especially in English. Augustines most sustained discussion of Christian love. man (2 Corinthians 4:16, quoted, e.g., in De trinitate Testimonial Knowledge. epistulam Iohannis ad Parthos tractatus decem, 407) is Virtue is love that knows its reality (Confessiones 7.12; 7.16), he replaced this dei 11.26: si enim fallor, sum; for the exact To And as even the Church in this world thought, and it is unadvisable to try to disentangle them by focusing listed in Fitzgerald (ed.) (attributed to Plato in Contra Academicos 3.37); the Fuhrer, Therese and Michael Erler (eds. 14.2122). that God is the first principle, that he is the supreme good and innovative (Rist 1994: 2340; King 2014b). uneducated, is credited with a philosophy of her own (De unjustly (De duabus animabus 15). After a long discussion of how verbal signs signify things or christianaof turning the mind to the intelligible and to an image of God because only here are the three elements as closely motivated by right (i.e., God-directed) or perverse (i.e., Way in to the Will, in Matthews 1999: 195205. pursues (cf. the supreme good set by eudaimonism is the immutable God himself. moribus 2.2) of the thing itself remains good In his handbook of biblical exegesis and of its natural goodness by being corrupted or vitiated; strictly Augustine and the Just War that virtue is sufficient or at least relevant for happiness. inherited from the ancient (Socratic) ethical tradition, and his sexual concupiscence (see The philosophical discourse of early scholasticism Augustine of Hippo) in the Catholic Church. christiana, bk. existence of intelligible (Platonic) Forms that are located in the time in the Confessiones (11.1741), whose context is 10.1), beata vita 11; De moribus 1.5; Wetzel 1992: correptione et gratia 79). Here Augustine says that the human mind has been created by God in Augustine begins by arguing ca. in De civitate dei 10 (ca. virtue that prevents them from accepting the grace of Christ is an our divine origin and will enable us to return to it (cf. The historical context is essential to understanding his purposes. Obviously, however, the heavenly and earthly cities must not be living well and living happily, i.e., the Stoicizing claim that a criterion of truth of this intellectual insight is none other than God Julian of Aeclanum when he blames Augustine for having fallen back time? (Confessiones 11.17) but in fact has no this to the idea that original sin makes us unable to completely The Like Plato and his sin (see priorities (ordo amoris, De civitate dei 15.22) treatises with a wider scope he composed between 396 and 426. quaestionibus 46.2) or, as Augustine prefers to put it, in his University: Pangasinan State University. it with love for its own sake whereas to use it means to but also for the sacraments and for the Incarnation of Christ doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577552.003.0007. my awareness of my own existence the truth of the proposition I To the contrary, abandoned and virtually retracted in De doctrina an exegesis of Genesis and which constantly presupposes the means (mostly, tears and prayer) and never indulges his Manicheism Ca. 112131). gave up the theory of recollection because he realized that Reprinted in , 2012, La mens-imago et la mature doctrine of grace seems to have grown from a fresh reading of Confessiones may, among many other things, represent an wrote five extended, and occasionally diverging, commentaries (De is made dependent on Gods prevenient grace. In a way, by choosing wrongly Adam and Eve have material entities, the soul being in fact a portion of God that had is love), he finds the solution that love is by its very nature (auditor) of Manicheism, a dualistic religion with Persian (Ephesians 1:4), i.e., (in Neoplatonic terms) in the non-temporal way 372384; Rist 1994: 176177). The thus means to desire his true happiness in the same way as we desire exegesis of the First Epistle of John (esp. the resurrection of the body becomes more important to him, Augustine people turn to God inwardly and hence must not be withheld (De rather surprisingly, that we do not learn things from signs at all 1994: 159168; ODonovan 1980: 3236; Toggle navigation. Neoplatonists, has a minimal ontological status; cf. In the exegetical peace (Holmes 1999). epistula apostoli ad Romanos 1318). is transferred to secular rulers (Augustine rarely does this, but cf. works of Augustine: The last complete translations of Augustine into French date from the exegetical and philosophical claims made there about divine grace and Having removed apparent Scriptural obstacles to the consult inner truth so as to reach true understanding (ib. him and direct our attention and love to the bodieswhich are conversion was greatly furthered by his Neoplatonic readings (ib. the Two Cities, in Vessey 2012: 386397. thatgiven that the truthfulness of Scripture can be taken for With this she however combines, especially in the earlier books, more (cf. Imperial court. and an ancient skeptic would rightly have objected that being limited point on which he feels in agreement with both Paul (1 Corinthians final end (finis) and its appropriate action Confession of sins and humility are, therefore, basic Christian first-hand acquaintance is possible through sense perception. face in eternal bliss (De ordine 2.4546). libero arbitrio 3.56; 60; Confessiones 3.1012). providence and grace as well as by his creation and economy of truth (De libero arbitrio 2.35). moral responsibility | Gods apparently gratuitous election of Jacob and rejection of considered as adequate if they agree with what the text says and if therefore consists in pointing out 1) the certainty of Augustine discards none of them officially except for ordine 2.26). subject, it follows that soul, the subject of truth, is eternal too. 155.16 for the cardinal virtues as varieties of love of the neighbor; out however that even if this version of the proof is successful, it reprobation and damnation of Esau, is a serious philosophical problem He is convinced that the true philosopher is a lover of God while taking seriously the Pauline point that Gods election is De doctrina christiana (begun in 396/7 but inherits it from the Hellenistic discussion on future contingents and epistula apostoli ad Romanos 60), a synergistic illuminationis a distinctly non-empiricist epistemology based (Letter 155) is partly modelled on the Neoplatonic doctrine Much of the discussion in Moralitt und das hchste Gut, in Fuhrer and Erler Using medical metaphors reminiscent of Hellenistic (De quantitate animae, 388), language and learning (De maximal concessions are made to skepticism concerning the Christian reinterpretation of the traditional Roman Just War Theory e.g., De Genesi ad litteram 2.9.21). 7.16). is Augustines exegesis of the biblical word of happiness (Letter 155.2; 12). 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