Augustine's sense of self is his relation to God, both in his recognition of God's love and his response to it—achieved through self-presentation, then self-realization. Augustine believed one could not achieve inner peace without finding God's love.

How does Augustine define?

For present purposes, what is most important about Augustine's definition of a people is that what sustains a society need not be a common love of or aspiration for justice. Instead what sustains societies may be nothing more than that their citizens love the limited peace their governments establish.

What are the contributions ideas of St Augustine in describing the self?

As Augustine constructs a view of God that would come to dominate Western thinking, he also creates a new concept of individual identity: the idea of the self. By telling this tale he transforms himself into a metaphor of the struggle of both body and soul to find happiness, which exists only in God's love.