Social Justice and Early Christianity
Augustine held that God can command the rich to give to the poor. The poor can never demand from the rich; generosity is never owed.
Augustine held that God can command the rich to give to the poor. The poor can never demand from the rich; generosity is never owed.
To Augustine, we have two ways of acquiring justice: transcendent and immanent. Some describe imminent justice as legal justice and transcendent justice as religious justice. However, the Social Justice movement conflates the two.
Liberals and Conservative want to claim Augustine as their own. With the doctrine of precedent, we explore his views on law, justice, and equality.
No pre-society civilization ever existed. All sentient moral beings are by definition relational. Therefore, man's desire to love and be loved is the cause of civilization.