ABSTRACT
I have arrived at an ethic or axiology which can broadly be called Augustinian, which I had adumbrated in the first chapter. It is an Augustinian ethic only in the sense of Augustine’s theories of good and evil, not the nuts and bolts of his moral teaching, some of which is excellent, some of which is appalling, and all of which is conditioned by his time and place-a superficially Christianised Roman Empire, still founded on slavery, and threatened to its heart by barbarian attacks.
