Plato St.

Augustine
1. Plato emphasized on his belief that
the perfect society would be that in which
each class and each unit would be doing
the work to which its nature and aptitude
best adapted it; in which no class or
individual would interfere with others, but
all would cooperate in difference to
produce an efficient and harmonious
whole. That would be a just state.
1. St. Augustine's main difference is
that he did not believe in the power of
human reason to produce truth,
goodness, or happiness on its own. He
thought you needed God’s help for that.
2. Augustine believed these were more
widely available to human beings through
the power of God’s grace.

2. Plato believed that the form of good

3. He believed the soul and the body
was out of the universe. He also believed
make up a human. The body isn't just a
that there could be another form of good
prison for a soul that jumps from body to
without having any connection to the
body. Instead, one body and one soul
physical world.
make up to one person.

3. Plato believed in the form of the

Good.

1. Plato and St. Augustine both believes that the soul exists.
2. Both of them agreed that the three parts of the soul are the rational, spirited,
and appetitive parts. The rational part corresponds to the guardians and that it
performs the executive function in a soul.
3. They both share the position of life is really death. To them, afterlife is the
heaven or paradise and earth is just preparing us to get there. Plato describes
that life on earth is to prepare the soul for existence in the afterlife. St. Augustine
shares a similar view in that who knows where people and bodies came from.
4. Both Plato and St. Augustine believed and agreed that the soul is
immortal/eternal.