When Plato thought about politics, he thought about an ideal city (at least in the Republic ).
Not Augustine. Augustine recognized that Plato had portrayed “what kind of city ought there to be.” But Augustine was after something different. He presented an actual human society, a city of God in history, with all the complexities and messiness that entails.
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