The justification is that God must be the only concern and that temporary things like friends and life are not above the importance of God because he is ever lasting. It could be my misinterpretation but to me that means that God cannot die so Augustine won’t ever have to feel pain or anything again if all he focuses is on Him...
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It is understandable that in the face of tragedy one would choose to detach himself from the world that brought him pain, but Augustine defines this new understanding as the way of reaching to God and understanding the purpose of existence, when it is in fact separation from the beauty of the world of which God is every fiber...
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