Excerpt from Love and Justice in Political Theory: A Study of Augustine's Definition of the Commonwealth; A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, December, 1944 In De officiis Cicero deplores the notion that there can be any true utility apart from justice, though base men entertain the notion. The determinative qualification of association for Cicero is therefore agreement as to justice, which.being secured utility is also secured. Augustine also denies that advantage can be truly secured apart from justice inasmuch as he asserts that if you choose to regard the matter attentively, you will see that there is nothing advantageous to those who live godless ly, as every one lives who does not serve God but demons, whose wickedness you may measure by their desire to receive the worship of men though they are most impure spirits.2 It is then at the G. S. Sabine and S. B. Smith, trans. (columbus: Ohio State Univgm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.