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  • 2 - Political Virtues?

  • Katherine Chambers, University of New England, Australia
  • Book:
    Augustine on the Nature of Virtue and Sin
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    23 November 2023, pp 45-81

  • Summary

    This chapter asks whether Augustine agreed with the Stoics and Platonists that there were no necessary outward differences between the lives of the vicious and the virtuous. Answering this question requires investigating whether he thought in terms of political virtues; this chapter finds that he did not. It finds that, for Augustine, justice – whether human justice or true justice – was not a political virtue, because it was primarily a description of our loves: the humanly just and the truly just differed at the level of their loves, but not at the level of their actions.