HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT

History of Political Thought

History of Political Thought

Section A - Political Theology of Augustine

Introduction

The study relates to political theology of Augustine which is a political philosophy of Saint Augustine is a philosophy of hard times. Saint Augustine occasionally used the term Christian philosophy, but certainly not suspected of any contradiction in terms (as was done in the period neo-scholastic); maybe she should look him tautological. Many of his works are syntheses philosophy, theology, study of the relations between the State and freedom of conscience. It is assumed until Saint Augustine contributed to existentialization pedagogy of the essence.

Discussion

The most important Christian thinker of the middle ages, Augustine. He tried to develop an adequate synthesis of the ideas of Augustine with to adapt Catholic teaching progress of science. Unlike Saint Augustine's no longer a state as a necessary evil. The state is therefore his perception of earthly institution which is to provide people with everything necessary for their temporary earthly life; however, worldly affairs for him to remain subordinate ethereal things, religious. In Augustine work, the government takes Augustine's classification of forms of government to properly and degenerates, according to the original criteria, whether the state serves the general welfare or the ruling. Unlike Aristotle, however, does not hide his sympathy for monarchical form of state. The monarch, who cares about people and it represents; the best guarantee of the unity of law, peace and the common good. It also acts as a defendant democracy, the adds that there is a potential threat to degenerate into tyranny, but this is where we share the government. Tyranny while considered most harmful form of government (Beer, 2012, 291).

Augustine access memory and knowledge of God ever become an inspiration for many other thinkers, seeking to know God. Augustine's emphasis on the fact that only God illumines our darkness, for example, became the inspiration for the lighting stick theory of knowledge, according to which the human mind in its cognitive activity of reason enlightened by the light of God. This doctrine has become an essential characteristic directly augustinism theological and philosophical direction of the successor to Augustine's intellectual legacy in the strict sense. In a broader sense, namely augustinism entire theological Middle Ages, including Thomism (see Philosophical Dictionary, 1995, p 43). The augustinism the 13th century theologians reported as Joannes Peckham, Roland of Cremona, Peter of Tarentaise and Robert Kilwardby. With varying intensity accepted philosophical elements of augustinism also such famous medieval theologians such as Anselm of Canterbury (1033 - 1109), Petrus Lombardus (1095 - 1160) and Johannes Fidanza (Cahall, 2001, 332). In modern times, the augustinism signed Jansenism and in recent times such as Romano Guardini and Max Scheler (Burggraff, 2000, 292). The role of memory in the knowledge of God then specifically hailed in particular the two thinkers' genius Ages “Blessed Raymond Lull (1232 - 1315) and Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600). Together, they share the idea that the exact preservation of paintings, representing the memory order of the universe, people can connect ...