چکیده:
The “City of God” as the most prominent work of St. Augustine can be considered a good link between the Christian and Greek philosophical tradition. He argues that the purpose of human Justice, surrendering to order, can be considered rel-atively a type of human justice. St. Augustine, like many of the philosophers before him, stress that the ultimate goal of Peace for the human being is the universe, and hence, all the creatures’ natural instinct is to preserve the essence of life and interest in continuing to seek peace. Thus, the aim of every society is peace, and peace in society consists of people agreeing to have a relationship with each other, in regularity
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Concept of Justice and Order of Law in the "City of God" - Philosophical Foundations of Augustine Augustine can be considered as the ultimate de- gree of unison between the Christian Religion and the Platonic Thought in the Christianity of the mid- dle Ages, as most of his thinking has been influ- enced by Plato or Neo Platonic followers (especial- ly Plotinus).
To reach goodness in life, one should act according to them, and justice which is offered on the basis of such law is following the orders and laws of God. Reward for such a justice is, also, earthly, which will be bestowed to Israelites by God. Therefore, injustice means disobeying the laws, either the laws of God, like Ten Commandments, or those of the human beings (Macintyre, ibid; 150-151).
On the basis of these differences some interpreters use the expressions of "relative justice" or "relative right" when they refer to the justice in earthly societies and states to ela- borate on Augustine’s ideas (Deane, 1966; 99) from the view point of Augustine, the real peace is not achievable in the life in this world.
Conclusion In short, it can be stated that Augustine is directly influenced by Plato and Neo Platonic ideas, he un- ites the concept of justice with a type of order, of course, in contrast to Plato, whose initiator is the Christian God. From his perspective, although jus- tice exists only in the celestial city i."