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Augustine, Strengths and weaknesses of Augustine - Coggle Diagram
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Augstine grew up in an environment of religious and philopshical plausalism that Constantine established
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Manicheese were a group augstine followed as a young man they believed the world was ina. Cosminc battle of good and evil people had two different souls one good and on evil
Plotinus though there is only the form of the good he was negative about the body and thought people should treat their own characters like sculputiors with a statue chiselling away at the
parts that aren’t right
Augustine questions that if Plotinus was correct and human intellect cloud understand the nature of goodness then there would be no need for Jesus and his guidance
Augustine became certain that such freedoms were a barrier to spirituality and other there should be restricted from them
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Before the fall Augustine believed we lived In a spirit of loving friendship and in harmony with living creatures
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Evil is here entirely because of misuse of human free will and we are all tainted with sin through Adam and Eve therefore attracted to material goods
Augustine saw human will as being driven by lobe which after the fall could pull a person in the right direct or the wrong, our fallen human nature inevitably leads people to do wrong
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Cupiditas Love is impermanent, changeable and earthy love of self and selfish needs people who choose this are ignorant and often unhappy because they have subjected themselves to laws of the world which are the human laws of social life
Caritas is the Latin equivalent of the Greek words agape generous love of others expression of gods wills of eternal law is dis-patched through virtues and leads to spiritual happiness
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For Augustine Adam and Eve chose the path of cupiditas and future generation have all inherited original sin meaning that all humans are sinful by nature and are born that way
We are now all in a state of ignorance and beyond rescue by their own efforts we can only be saved from sin by gods grace through Christ
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Augustine argued that humanity is sinful at the mercy of sexual desire and lust for material things which are distractions from loving and obeying god
Augustine was sympathetic to women he didn’t see women as weaker or evil because of the sin of eve as we are all created with imago dei
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Only way for humanity and god to live harmoniously again is through gods grace. Gods grace is the only thing that can save people from eternal punishment for their sinful nature. Rejects that human reason or act of kindness earn a place in heaven
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