Cicero's Thoughts
Augustine'sThoughts
Similarities and Contrasts
Marcus Tullius Cicero had been born on January 3, 106 B.C.E; and he demised on December 7, 43 B.C.E. in a murder. His life overlapped with the downfall and eventually decimation of the Roman realm, during which time he has been a significant factor in political affairs, and as such, his writings are a valued source of information and knowledge regarding those events. He was a philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, among other things. To grasp the logic of his work and to appreciate his philosophy necessitates us to have that in mind. Philosophical study was important but it was even more significant as a way to a more effectual action politically, so he put politics higher than philosophical study. During times when he was inhibited to take part in politics against his will, he made his philosophical writings. St. Augustine's submission that Hortensius (an exhortation to philosophy) by Cicero that transformed him from his sinful life and to philosophy and eventually to God, is the best example of Cicero's influence. According to Clayton (2016), Augustine later embraced the definition of Commonwealth by Cicero, using the former in his argument that the Rome's ruin by the barbarians cannot be attributed to Christianity.
A Catholic bishop of Hippo in northern Africa, St. Augustine (354-430 C.E.) was formerly known as Aurelius Augustinus. He was the first Christian philosopher, an expert Roman-instructed rhetorician, an inexhaustible writer who delivered over 110 works, with extensive approval, continually for over 30 years. His political views and social philosophy creates a significant intellectual channel between late antiquity and the medieval world that was evolving. This is because he was writing from an inimitable background and having an advantageous position as an ardent viewer of the society preceding the collapse of the Roman Empire. a lot of scholars revere him as the most significant and instrumental Western philosopher. According to Mattox (2016), although Augustine would not have considered himself as a philosopher, politically or socially, per se, but his writings on subjects such as the nature of human society, the nature and the part of the state, justice, just and unjust war, peace, and the association between church and state; all have contributed significantly in determining the evolution of Western civilization.
Cicero's Thoughts
Clayton proposed that Cicero thought of philosophy as inferior to politics, therefore, it must not shock us to learn that there is a political goal behind his philosophy: the protection and security, and if possible the advancement, involving the Roman...
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