Episode 5. Saint Augustine. Vice contains its own punishment.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE REAL WORLD
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE REAL WORLD
Episode 5. Saint Augustine. Vice contains its own punishment.
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Episode 2 described the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates’ idea that “vice harms the doer.” This episode describes the remarkably similar idea advanced by the fourth century Christian thinker Saint Augustine that vice contains its own punishment.