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Yeah, like it or not, Augustine did much to shape European politics and society for a long time . Maybe still [here in U.S.] I read [ oh , the horror , the hours ] and wrote about City of God in Collidge . It is about the sacking / fall of Rome , reasons thereof, and how to avoid such things. [ Guess what the answer is…] Anyway, maybe he didn't really mean it to be a political treatise, it became one anyway. The next giant of political philosophy after Plato. A coupla years later, Clovis, father of Charlemagne, converted to the Big-C. Not that any [well, few] of them were all lovey Christians, but they had a bunch of propaganda right at hand supplied by Augustine, if they needed it. Also, the political power of the pope.
Yeah, like it or not, Augustine did much to shape European politics and society for a long time . Maybe still [here in U.S.] I read [ oh , the horror , the hours ] and wrote about City of God in Collidge . It is about the sacking / fall of Rome , reasons thereof, and how to avoid such things. [ Guess what the answer is…] Anyway, maybe he didn't really mean it to be a political treatise, it became one anyway. The next giant of political philosophy after Plato. A coupla years later, Clovis, father of Charlemagne, converted to the Big-C. Not that any [well, few] of them were all lovey Christians, but they had a bunch of propaganda right at hand supplied by Augustine, if they needed it. Also, the political power of the pope.