Rethinking Friendship: Augustine's Unexpected Perspective

At least, in this later perspective, the friend is. Friendship is something very important to most people. In fact st augustine believed that in this world two things are essential: God created people to breathe and be alive. A friend is to be loved freely, for his own sake, not for the sake of something else.

Augustine’s friend alypius demonstrates the significant role which friends exercised in augustine’s conversion. Both men struggled to discern accurately the underlying world order and the. Augustine is unusual in giving substantial attention to the dangers of friendship and its potential to serve as an obstacle (rather than an aid) to virtue. Despite the originality of augustine’s.