The Koran and City of God are both texts that revolve around the same supreme eternal being, God. These text’s also have ultimate reality’s. However, the ultimate reality’s in each text are completely different. The Koran views ultimate reality as an achievable afterlife while City of God views it as an unobtainable experience that has already been tainted by the transgressions of Adam and Eve. These differences in these ultimate reality’s affect the relationship between men and women. In the Koran, the importance of a relationship is to fulfill your individual duty by following the guidelines set forth in the Koran. In the City of God, relationships have made the achieving ultimate reality impossible because the emotional connection between
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First, Augustine’s view will be analyzed. In the City of God lust and sexual pleasure is portrayed to be sinful. Early in the text it is stated that if “anyone looks at a woman with the eyes of lust, he already committed adultery with his heart.’ (Augustine 3). This means that the thought of a person determines their righteousness even if no wrong action was made. “Pleasure, on the other hand, is preceded by a kind of craving which is felt in the body as its own desire – hunger, for instance, and thirst, and the feeling normally called lust, when it is concerned with the sexual organs” (Augustine 7). Sexual pleasure is unholy in the eyes of Augustine and it does not occur the ultimately reality where there is now original sin. The perfect man in Augustine’s opinion “possess[es] his bodily instrument in holiness and honour, not in the sickness of desire, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God – surely such a man would prefer, if possible, to beget children without lust of this kind” (Augustine 8). Augustine has a harsh opinion of sexual pleasure and believes that a perfect man would prefer to have children without the sexual pleasure. The Koran also has a critical view of sex. “Those of your women who commit fornication, let four (Muslim) witness testify to their act. If there is sufficient testimony, confine them, to their homes until they die, or until God provides a way for their freedom” (Koran 4:15). Even though …show more content…
To recap, the ultimate reality of the Koran is an afterlife that is achieved through submission of oneself to the superior being God. While in Augustine’s City of God the ultimate reality is not an achievable reality but an impossible state of existence without sin. Each text’s version of the ultimate reality lays out different guidelines on the role of a relationship between a man and a woman. In the Koran the ideal relationship is achieved through following the one’s duty as husband and a wife. While in the City of God it has already been tainted by the sins of Adam and Eve. However, the relationship in the ultimate reality before the original sin was peaceful and without sexual cravings. The intended purpose of sex was only procreation. The relationship between a men and women is a prominent topic in both text’s but their ultimate reality’s address them
First, Augustine’s view will be analyzed. In the City of God lust and sexual pleasure is portrayed to be sinful. Early in the text it is stated that if “anyone looks at a woman with the eyes of lust, he already committed adultery with his heart.’ (Augustine 3). This means that the thought of a person determines their righteousness even if no wrong action was made. “Pleasure, on the other hand, is preceded by a kind of craving which is felt in the body as its own desire – hunger, for instance, and thirst, and the feeling normally called lust, when it is concerned with the sexual organs” (Augustine 7). Sexual pleasure is unholy in the eyes of Augustine and it does not occur the ultimately reality where there is now original sin. The perfect man in Augustine’s opinion “possess[es] his bodily instrument in holiness and honour, not in the sickness of desire, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God – surely such a man would prefer, if possible, to beget children without lust of this kind” (Augustine 8). Augustine has a harsh opinion of sexual pleasure and believes that a perfect man would prefer to have children without the sexual pleasure. The Koran also has a critical view of sex. “Those of your women who commit fornication, let four (Muslim) witness testify to their act. If there is sufficient testimony, confine them, to their homes until they die, or until God provides a way for their freedom” (Koran 4:15). Even though …show more content…
To recap, the ultimate reality of the Koran is an afterlife that is achieved through submission of oneself to the superior being God. While in Augustine’s City of God the ultimate reality is not an achievable reality but an impossible state of existence without sin. Each text’s version of the ultimate reality lays out different guidelines on the role of a relationship between a man and a woman. In the Koran the ideal relationship is achieved through following the one’s duty as husband and a wife. While in the City of God it has already been tainted by the sins of Adam and Eve. However, the relationship in the ultimate reality before the original sin was peaceful and without sexual cravings. The intended purpose of sex was only procreation. The relationship between a men and women is a prominent topic in both text’s but their ultimate reality’s address them