The City of God and the City of Men

Augustine has not given up the idea that philosophy should be the pursuit of happiness, but he has abandoned the notion that happiness can be attained in this life. It seems then that the Hellenic philosophical schools offer us no path to supreme blessedness, but only something akin to what Buster Keaton's father offered him, a lesson in remaining unfazed by adversity. Who among us then are the citizens of the eternal city, the ones who will be truly happy? For now we cannot tell.