St. Augustine’s Ethics: A Summary and Analysis of His Moral Philosophy

Being a theologian, he is unsurprisingly classified by some as a ‘divine-command theorist’ and a ‘natural law theorist.’ But he can be a ‘virtue ethicist’ too for advocating the Greek and Christian virtues. In promoting happiness as the supposed end of actions, he can be classified as a ‘consequentialist.’

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Augustine of Hippo: The Greatest Medieval Philosopher

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO is arguably the greatest Medieval philosopher, at least in the early part of the so-called Middle Ages. He is one of the most eminent Western Doctors of the Church and considered the first major Christian ethical philosopher.

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