NPNF1-02. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine

NPNF1-02. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian
Doctrine
A review of the philosophical opinions regarding the Supreme Good, and
a comparison of these opinions with the Christian belief regarding
happiness.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 573
That Varro Has Made Out that Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight Different
Sects of Philosophy Might Be Formed by the Various Opinions Regarding
the Supreme Good.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 574
How Varro, by Removing All the Differences Which Do Not Form Sects,
But are Merely Secondary Questions, Reaches Three Definitions of the
Chief Good, of Which We Must Choose One.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 576
Which of the Three Leading Opinions Regarding the Chief Good Should
Be Preferred, According to Varro, Who Follows Antiochus and the Old
Academy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 577
What the Christians Believe Regarding the Supreme Good and Evil, in
Opposition to the Philosophers, Who Have Maintained that the Supreme
Good is in Themselves.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 579
Of the Social Life, Which, Though Most Desirable, is Frequently Disturbed
by Many Distresses.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 582
Of the Error of Human Judgments When the Truth is Hidden.. . . . . . . p. 583
Of the Diversity of Languages, by Which the Intercourse of Men is
Prevented; And of the Misery of Wars, Even of Those Called Just.. . . . p. 584
That the Friendship of Good Men Cannot Be Securely Rested In, So Long
as the Dangers of This Life Force Us to Be Anxious.. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 585
Of the Friendship of the Holy Angels, Which Men Cannot Be Sure of in
This Life, Owing to the Deceit of the Demons Who Hold in Bondage the
Worshippers of a Plurality of Gods.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 586
The Reward Prepared for the Saints After They Have Endured the Trial
of This Life.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 587
Of the Happiness of the Eternal Peace, Which Constitutes the End or
True Perfection of the Saints.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 587
That Even the Fierceness of War and All the Disquietude of Men Make
Towards This One End of Peace, Which Every Nature Desires.. . . . . p. 588
Of the Universal Peace Which the Law of Nature Preserves Through All
Disturbances, and by Which Every One Reaches His Desert in a Way
Regulated by the Just Judge.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 590
Of the Order and Law Which Obtain in Heaven and Earth, Whereby It
Comes to Pass that Human Society Is Served by Those Who Rule
It.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 592
Of the Liberty Proper to Man’s Nature, and the Servitude Introduced by
Sin,—A Servitude in Which the Man Whose Will is Wicked is the Slavep.
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Philip Schaff