Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Sean Connery

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2237E
• Professor: Douglas Long

Document Summary

Augustine promoted christianity to the romans as a means to protection because christians were a united people who would not allow the barbarians to cross the gate, for the simple reason that their priests would tell them not to. Augustine argues that we were created as good people by god but were tainted by original sin>>problem of evil. The way we live is the pursuit of our passions and self-interested desires>>this formed the basis of politics from the 1800s onwards. Augustine argues that the goal of politics was moderation; law and education, according to. Augustine, led to untruths, domination, and, rather than love, the restraining of hostilities (at least plato was optimistic that these things could improve people) This is a specific political alliance between the catholic church and the roman empire. 2-form an alliance between the catholic (universal) church and the imperial roman empire;