Augustine was the man for the job; confronting philosophical questions and provided a spiritual solution that faced the Empire. He argued in “City of God” that Rome was not the Eternal City that everyone thought, but was the City of Man and was just temporary and the City of God was everlasting because was the commander and not Emperors or Kings. On the other spectrum, Aquinas tells his audience in the “Summa Theologica” there are various kinds of law. He tells that there are three kinds of laws. The divine law is the eternal law that comes directly from the will of God which provides structure and ordains the universe to function in the way that it does, the natural law which is the moral order of human beings, and the human law which is the legal/ political order that is derived from the natural law. He defines law as “a rule of measures of acts whereby man is induced to act or is restrained from acting,” it is directed towards the common good, and it must be made known to the public. …show more content…
He believes that self-evidence has two dimensions: a metaphysical dimension and an epistemological one. A proposition is self-evident, metaphysically (or in itself) when the predicate is included in the essence of the subject. Yet a thing can be self-evident in two ways, and these two ways capture the epistemological (to us) dimension of self-evidence. In itself and to us means that the essence of the predicate and the subject are known to all, and in itself though not known to us means that either the essence of the predicate and the subject are not easily known, even though they actually include each other, or the essence of the predicate and the subject cannot be known by all of us at