Before converting to Christianity, Augustine found that the philosophy of Plato offered him a more compelling view of morality than did the dualism of Manichaeism. This school of philosophy, neoplatonism, was the intellectual bridge that allowed Augustine to move from pagan life to Christian life. Suffice to say, Augustine used this philosophy in the service of Christianity but some Christian beliefs are irreconcilable with neoplatonism. ... In Diotima's ladder of eros, she speaks of the ascent to philosophy, involving the man finding another younger male to use as his muse, through...

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