Socrates and Augustine are two different men with some very similar views. They share in the idea that the body is the root of our problems or of evil in general. I believe more in what Augustine taught when he said that bad intentions with the body are just as bad as the action itself. Socrates believed that the body is not only rejected by philosophy but also that it gets in the way of …showed first 75 words of 1264 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1264 total…without it, so why should they live with this root of their sin. The belief that Augustine follows agrees that the body can cause evil, but is not the root of our evil. He says that when we take material things and don’t use them to get to god, then we are committing evil. No matter how evil the body can make us our soul is always capable of the reformation back to goodness.