Article history: Received 6 August 2013 Received in revised form 20 January 2014 Accepted 19 March 2014 Available online 22 April 2014

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The “City of God” as the most prominent work of St. Augustine can be considered a good link between the Christian and Greek philosophical tradition.  He argues that the purpose of human Justice, surrendering to order, can be considered relatively a type of human justice.  St. Augustine, like many of the philosophers before him, stress that the ultimate goal of Peace for the human being is the u...

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