Augustine seemed to take to Plato’s philosophy and honestly just switch up a few things.

Augustine used Plato’s ideas to help him formulate his one philosophy. Plato believed in the form of the

Good. And Augustine believed in the Concept of God. Both of these philosophers believed in eternal and
absolute things. the form of good is eternal and absolute, as is the Christian God. Both philosophers
agreed that you needed to seek the highest amount of knowledge. In Plato’s eyes, this came in the form of

good, and acting upon this. In Augustine’s philosophy, he also believed that you needed to obtain the
highest amount of knowledge, but he did this through God. Another similarity is that Plato states that the
form of good is perfect and absolute. He believes that we can do good, but no one is perfect, all of the

time. In Augustines philosophy, he believes that Christians also cannot be perfect. He believes that only
God is and can be perfect. Lastly, both philosophers concepts are unchanging. They are absolute, as
mentioned earlier. Both forms of God and the Good are always there, and unchanging to these

philosophers.
Plato believed that the form of good was also out of the universe, transcendent. He believed that
there could be another form of good without having any connection to the physical world. Augustine

believed that God was good, and could be also out of this universe, but had a presence in the universe,
and on it as well. Augustine believed in immanence. Another difference is that Plato’s form of good is
impersonal. This is one of the realms of forms that is just there.