Understanding The Early Thinkers: Platos Ideal City And Augustines City Of God

Understanding the Early Thinkers: Plato’s Ideal City and Augustine’s City of GodName:Research paperProfessor’sName:Date:Understanding the Early Thinkers: Plato and AugustinePolitical philosophy is a philosophical reflection on how best to arrange our collective life,our political institutions and our social practices, such as our economic system and our pattern of family life. Among the early political philosophers include Socrates, Plato,Saint Augustine, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Plato, who was a student of Socrates, draws most of his arguments from Socrates. Saint Augustine’s however, draws his arguments from both Christian and Platonic teaching. This document willcompare and contrast Plato’s political philosophy of the Ideal City, with Augustine’s City of God. The areas of focus include politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, and law. It will also compare what other philosophers of their times, such as Aristotle and Aquinas thought about the same issues to understand the context of their reasoning.Born and raised in Algeria as a Christian, Saint Augustine, or Augustine of hippo’s work greatly influences the philosophy of the western world. His famous works include the City of God, and the