Agustine and Human Nature Flashcards
Concordia
Human friendship
Cupiditas
(Selfish love)
-A love of worldly things and selfish desires
Caritas
- Generous love
- A love of others and the virtues (agape)
Concupiscence
Uncontrollable desire for physical pleasures and material things
Ecclesia
Heavenly society, in contrast with earthly society
Augustine and thinking like Manichees
Augustine through as humans we are in a battle with good vs evil and the individual has 2 souls pulling an individual
Neoplatonism
Philosophical thinking arising from Plato
Augustine’s conversion
Augustine converted to Christian at the age of 32 becoming a priest and then a bishop
Augustine as a Christian
-He ordered the destruction of non-Christian places
Augustine’s writings
Augustine wrote 93 formal works
Augustine on Adana and Eve
-For Augustine when Adam and Eve ate the apple was the turning lint for all of creation
Augustine after Adam and Eve ate apple
Augustine believe that Adam and Eve had a fruitful relationship with each other and with God
Augustine and friendship
Assisting believes that friendship is essential for any as it is the highest form of sociable nature (Concordia)
Augustine and original sin
- Augustine believed that we are born with freewill
- But Augustine also believed that we inherit original sin from Adam guilt and that we can’t do anything about original sin
Evil in the world
The sin on the world is on humans misused freewill
Original Sin and it’s effects on the will and human society
Adam and Eve passed a generational sin which was original sin through sexual intercourse
Augustine believed that earthly peace was just something created from human sin
Augustine thoughts on Grace
Augustine believed that the only way to achieve peace and harmony with God was through Grace
Augustine and the ‘Doctor of Grace’
Augustine was nicknamed the ‘Doctor of Grace’ because of the way he prescribed Grace
Election
Augustine said that God would pre-elect for eternal life in heaven
For Augustine Grace is understood as:
- The love and mercy of God
- A quality of God that is Calle of reaching the heart and will of a person
- Encourages the soul to praise God
Eternal punishment
Augustine believed that the grace of God is the only thing that can save people from eternal punishment
