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Anonymous Sat Jul 18 14:31:04 2020 No.15896258 [Reply] [Original]

can someone explain the extent and reasoning behind plato's influence on augustine's writing? for example, in book 1 of on free will augustine almost exactly duplicates the reasoning in republic's books 1-4 (the total ordering of temperance and the four virtues). why would the workings of a pre-christian philosopher mean so much to augustine? is it a historical context thing? ty

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 18 14:33:59 2020 No.15896275 Christianity is a Scientology tier cult, so it’s naturally devoid of anything philosophical. Therefore, you have to get it from somewhere else, so they stole it from the pagan Greeks

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 18 14:42:13 2020 No.15896332 >>15896275 Based

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