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Augustines teaching on human nature Flashcards

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What is the topic about

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Augustine believes that the fall damaged human nature

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Aquinas life and influences

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  • Manichees , the universe is a battle between good and evil.Human appetite traps the body but reason is the way towards enlightenment.
  • Plato , human appetites are shameful reason is the only way to form of good
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Human nature created by god

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  • Adam and Eve are created in imago dei(we share some characteristics with God)
  • Made of physical matter
  • They are given stewardship
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The fall

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  • Genesis 2-3
  • serpent tempts eve to eat off the tree and both disobey God
  • they fall away from their perfect nature
  • eve pain of childbirth/Adam work for a living.serpent is made enemy of humanity and we no longer have the same connection to God.
  • TURNING POINT OF ALL CREATION
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human relationship before the fall

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  • People lived in state of loving friendship… Concordia
  • Lived in state of perfection without sin
  • Lived comfortable with naked bodies and weren’t worried about being naked
  • Peaceful world with no need for repressive authority but still need authority
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Two loves flawed humans confuse?

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  • We as humans confuse two loves
    cupiditas - love of worldly, impermanent things.(brings unhappiness

Caritas - Generous love of others displayed through virtues which gives spiritual happiness(prudence, justice)

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Which love did Adam and Eve choose

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Adam and Eve chose cupiditas after the fall.Passed on original sin

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Humans after the fall

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  • Original sin has corrupted our ability to live morally good
  • People can only be saved by the grace of God
  • People are divided we are made in imago dei and have reason
    -People need forceful political authority
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What is concupscience

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  • the cause of sinful humanity
  • uncontrollable desire for physical pleasures and material things
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What is earthly peace

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a compromise between sinful individuals

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Aquinas teaching on grace

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  • We can only be saved from sin through grace of God
  • people will still sin after receiving grace but God will accept some into heaven
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strengths

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  • encourages humanity to take responsibility for own failings
  • valuable distinction between cupiditas and caritas
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weaknesses

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  • an omnibenevolent god punishing people for sins they didn’t commit is hard to accept
  • John lock - people are born with tabula rasa (blank slate)
  • he assumes we all have the same human nature - Jean Paul Sartre
  • Theory of evolution makes it difficult to see that humanity is so different in nature to other animals.
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