Cicero and Augustine: contrasting figures to think politics
Keywords:
Justice, sociability, natural law, love, decisionismAbstract
This text examines Cicero’s and Augustine’s thought as two antagonistic conceptions of political “essenciality”. While in the case of the Roman jurist the notions of justice and sociability are emphasized as core categories of the idea of republic, in the case of the theologian it is shown the theoretical breakdown of natural law and the replacement of the category of justice for the category of love in naming the republican sphere now taken in a broad sense, which makes possible to conceive of unjust republics. In this sense, we argue that Augustine represents the end of the ancient world.
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