Editing Divine command theory (section)

===Augustine===
[[File:Gerard Seghers (attr) - The Four Doctors of the Western Church, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430).jpg|thumb|The Four Doctors of the Western Church, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), [[Gerard Seghers]]]]

[[Saint Augustine]] offered a version of divine command theory that began by casting ethics as the pursuit of the [[supreme good]], which delivers human [[happiness]]. He argued that to achieve this happiness, humans must love objects that are worthy of human love in the correct manner; this requires humans to love God, which then allows them to correctly love that which is worthy of being loved. Augustine's ethics proposed that the act of loving God enables humans to properly orient their loves, leading to human happiness and [[Self-fulfillment|fulfilment]].<ref name=austin/> Augustine supported [[Plato| Plato's]] view that a well-ordered [[soul]] is a desirable consequence of morality. However, unlike Plato, he believed that achieving a well-ordered soul had a higher purpose: living in accordance with God's commands. His view of morality was thus [[heteronomous (disambiguation)|heteronomous]], as he believed in deference to a higher authority (God), rather than acting [[autonomy#Philosophy|autonomously]].<ref>{{harvnb|Connolly|Keller|Leever|White|2009|p=24}}</ref>