St._Augustine__The_City_of_God

St. Augustine: The City of God St. Augustine: The City of God According to St. Augustine, there have been many people and events that have helped in the establishment of philosophy and natural theology. He mentions many great thinkers before him that have contributed, such as Thales of Miletus along with his disciples Anaximander and Anaximenes who focused on astronomical calculations. These three philosophers were part of the Ionian School of philosophy, which is one of two schools the other being the Italian School. But the most renowned thinker in philosophy according to St. Augistine was Plato. A student of Socrates, Plato followed in the Socratic way of thought, but clearly surpassed all in knowledge mainly dealing with the will and nature of men. He traveled frequently in search of knowledge he had not come across in hopes to create the perfect philosophy. Accordingly there are two divisions of philosophy, active and contemplative. The first of these two divisions deals with the conduct of life and the second with the natural cause of life. Plato combined both of these then divided the new whole into three parts: first moral philosophy, which pertains to action, second, natural philosophy, which is connected to contemplation and st, augustine, philosophy, plato, mind, god, two, three, philosophers, natural, life, cause, unchangeable, ultimate, truth, true, thinking, things, second, school, reality, p117, nature, must, knowledge, first, divisions, both, believed, being, been, beauty,