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A 3 page paper comparing the two philosophers and their
views on the nature of the universe as well as how we should react to others. Both believed that there was only good in the world. St. Augustine's view was that evil was either the absence or perversion of the good that exists. Marcus Aurelius maintained that the universe is a rational one and that any event serves to maintain the universe as being rational. If anyone believed himself to have been wronged, the belief was a flaw with the one taking offense rather than with the one committing the action. No sources listed.
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File: CC6_KSaugust.doc
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middle class for fourth century North Africa; Marcus Aurelius was emperor of the Roman empire in the second century A.D. The two held very different views of the topics
on which they wrote. Both disagreed with events taking place in their respective times, but each likely would have reacted very differently than did the one in whose time
the events occurred. Similarities Both were rather patient with people. Each understood that people
had their own motivations for the things that they did, though each believed that those motivations arose from different origins. St. Augustine preached
the doctrine of predestination, but not only that some would be saved. Rather, he believed that some were predestined to be saved, while others were predestined to be lost
for all eternity. Marcus Aurelius held that the universe, and therefore the world, was a rational one and that specific events would have to occur so that it could
remain so. Because the rational universe had to maintain its distinction, then some events were indeed required. Both believed that only good
existed, though they had differing views on the interpretation of goodness. For St. Augustine, true happiness could only be found in the pursuit of knowledge of God, and of
course that was beyond the reach of Marcus Aurelius who did not believe that the God of which he wrote could be a personal deity. However, Marcus Aurelius also
believed that only good existed. The rational universe was rational and therefore good; events that enabled it to hold its course therefore could only be good as well.
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