Marisa Paris
Humanities 220
Professor Cope
11/17/14
One of the benefits of comparing multiple different pieces of work is the ability it gives us to form our own opinions. Although the pieces of work may be from varying time periods, or unchanged time periods, each of them still include certain aspects that are virtually the same. For example, The Gospel of Luke, Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and Augustine’s Confessions, all present alike views on the idea of free will. A loose definition of free will could serve as follows: the capability to perform activities and make choices in which neither God nor fate controls either of them. This immaterial definition of free will is given life and unveiled in The Gospel of Luke, Paul’s letter to the Romans, and Augustine’s Confessions. Thus, highlighting even …show more content…
Augustine mirrors this belief of separation between the mind and the body almost exactly. Throughout his life, Augustine has committed multiple sins in which he perceives as deadly. Such as, jealously and greed, stealing pears merely for the pride of being “bad,” and the lust of sexual desires of being an adult. “Let them fade away from your gaze,” God- as the “empty talkers and mind’s perverters’ fade from it- who, assenting that there can be two wills hesitating over a decision, assert that there are two minds in a man, with two different natures” (Book 8, Chapter 5). This quote emphasizes the belief that Augustine has dealing with the separation of the mind and the body. He doesn’t attribute sin to just the mind or just the body; instead he realizes that although a person has one body, the nature of that body may be different than the nature of the mind, ending in two separate and unique natures. The hesitation that comes when making a decision is due to the two separate natures. In the mind the person may know that his or her decision is wrong and sinful, but simultaneously the body is trying to persuade him or her to go ahead and follow through with
Humanities 220
Professor Cope
11/17/14
One of the benefits of comparing multiple different pieces of work is the ability it gives us to form our own opinions. Although the pieces of work may be from varying time periods, or unchanged time periods, each of them still include certain aspects that are virtually the same. For example, The Gospel of Luke, Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and Augustine’s Confessions, all present alike views on the idea of free will. A loose definition of free will could serve as follows: the capability to perform activities and make choices in which neither God nor fate controls either of them. This immaterial definition of free will is given life and unveiled in The Gospel of Luke, Paul’s letter to the Romans, and Augustine’s Confessions. Thus, highlighting even …show more content…
Augustine mirrors this belief of separation between the mind and the body almost exactly. Throughout his life, Augustine has committed multiple sins in which he perceives as deadly. Such as, jealously and greed, stealing pears merely for the pride of being “bad,” and the lust of sexual desires of being an adult. “Let them fade away from your gaze,” God- as the “empty talkers and mind’s perverters’ fade from it- who, assenting that there can be two wills hesitating over a decision, assert that there are two minds in a man, with two different natures” (Book 8, Chapter 5). This quote emphasizes the belief that Augustine has dealing with the separation of the mind and the body. He doesn’t attribute sin to just the mind or just the body; instead he realizes that although a person has one body, the nature of that body may be different than the nature of the mind, ending in two separate and unique natures. The hesitation that comes when making a decision is due to the two separate natures. In the mind the person may know that his or her decision is wrong and sinful, but simultaneously the body is trying to persuade him or her to go ahead and follow through with