Augustine generalized love across spheres while Aquinas exiled perfect love from concrete possibility.

Evidence

Schematizing the changes to which we have been trying to attend, one could say that whereas Augustine abolished the differences between God, neighbor, and enemy from the perspective of love (thereby generalizing love-as love of God-to include all spheres oflife, whether hostile or not, and thus dispensing with the need to discuss the enemy and the love of the enemy as a concrete or particular issue), Aquinas divorced love, that is to say, perfect love, from the realm of concrete possibility. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 191

Categorization

• XREF: This Augustinian-versus-Thomistic schematization around the enemy is scaffolding for the genealogy; worth nothing as theoretical infrastructure.