Augustine Free Will Analysis

MAGPILI, Airish A. 2PHL1
THE NOTION OF FREE WILL IN AUGUSTINE’S IDEA OF POLITICAL THEORY
How can the chosen ones work successfully and just in the unjust world?
To Augustine, the earth was brought to exist by an absolute, perfectly good and just God which himself created man. For Augustine, the earth is not eternal, that the earth in comparison with time has both limit which means has beginning and an end. While man on the other hand is brought to exist to endure eternally, compassion is given to all man due to the fall of Adam who was created with free will chooses to turn away from God and disrupt the good order that has been established by God. And due to Adam’s fall, human being has been the heir of the effect of original sin which
As what have been said in Augustine’s notion of the will, though the mind has the capacity to choose, and is standing under the presence of alternatives, it is proven that the mind is not ignorant of choosing either to turn away from God or not to turn away from God and so, by choosing to turn to God is to have the help of God’s grace where the evil will be caused only by the act of free will while the virtue is not the product of the will but God’s grace. In having God’s grace is the existence of the moral law which tells us what we must do but actually shows the things that we can’t do in our own. In consequence, moral law was given so that the grace might be seek on the other hand grace was given so that the law might be fulfilled. On Augustine’s perspectives, either political or public life is just under the same rule of moral law. Where there lies a single truth for both realms of political or public life and this was known as the natural law or natural justice. It was considered by Augustine as the intellectual sharing of people in God’s truth which is God’s eternal law. His notion of the eternal law has already been watch by the Stoics when they speak of the diffusion about the principle of reason throughout all of nature. In credits to their principle of reason is the role and power of ruling everything. The theory of the stoics is that the mind which is the
Therefore it will make the laws of the state null and void or invalid. While between the relations of the justice to the moral law, in Augustine’s view, justice puts no limit or boundaries to its relation between people. Then he said that it is between the person and God to which the primary relationship of justice is. And I quote, “If people do not serve God what justice can be thought to be in them?” Hence, a collective type of justice according to Augustine is beyond possible than the individual justices for he believes that if justice cannot be found in one person only, then how come it can be found in a whole number of that kind of people. And so, among that, there is no approval of the law in which it can make a multiple people just or