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1-5:
6-10:
11-15:
16-18:
19-22:
(Varro)
(select gods)
(Apuleius)
(Porphyry)
(354-430)
(The City
of God)
21
Res publica
--
supreme good
124
-- Varro
naturae
C. Peace (10-26)
1. the peace that is longed-for (10-13)
2. the possibility of authentic peace in this
world
(14-20)
3. Cicero and Porphyry refuted (21-26)
D. Peace the goal of the city of God, war of
the city of
man (27-28)
Augustine, City of God by James J.
O'Donnell.
virtue,
pirma
Notes on Ch.19 of De Civitate Dei.
Varro Book XIX
p846 ch 1 Varro works out that there are 288
possible philosophical systems, then he refutes
all except the one he holds to. (key differentiator
is in terms of what is the supreme good and
supreme evil)
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p850 ch 3 Varro argues that we are soul and
body in combination (not a soul merely
contained by a body) and thus the ultimate good
is what brings happiness to both soul and body
p852 ch 4 Augustine gets onto the Christian view
of Supreme good and evil
p852 ch 4 Q: eternal life is the Supreme Good
and eternal death the Supreme Evil, and that to
achieve the one and escape the other, we must
live rightly.
p855 ch 4 argues that it is obvious that true
happiness cannot be attained in this life
p860 ch 6 discusses the miscarriages of justice
from torturing witnesses to gain a confession
p862 ch 7 discusses the misery the wise feel in
the necessity of waging just wars.
p863 ch 8 q: how can it be that a mans death
should not be bitter if his life is sweet to us?
p868 ch 12 pride is a perverted imitation of God.
p871 ch 13 q: not even the nature of the Devil
himself is evil, in so far as it is a nature; it is
perversion that makes it evil.
p873 ch 14 q: a man who loves God is not
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Th e Clty cf 3.: