Augustine of Hippo

urge to do something especially wrong or unwise. Augustine uses Confessions to show modern day temptation with stealing. In Book Two, The Pear Tree, Augustine speaks of his struggles with stealing. Temptation draws him to stealing fruit for many reasons. These reasons include, breaking laws, to feel sinful, and simply because he knew he did not need the fruit and it was not supposed to be taken. Forbidden things make temptation grow stronger. Augustine mentions God’s law first. It is stated…

Augustine’s Confessions Book III Response In Book Three of Augustine’s Confessions, Augustine recounts what he considers to be the lowest point in his life, the “climax of [his] enjoyment(CH1)”. He recalls how malicious influences continued to haunt him, and that even when he found good influences, he found something in them inexcusably dissatisfying. Augustine is now around the age of eighteen and in Carthage. He has fallen even farther down the slippery slope of lust and sinful indulgence,…

Aptly titled, Carpenter aims to explain Thomas Aquinas’ philosophical approach to God in her article “The Philosophical Approach to God in Thomism”. She demonstrates how Aquinas defines the relationship between the human being and God. Her article also showcases the relation between God and the concepts of perfection and truth, with the latter two being factors to justify his existence. Despite being a dated scholarly article, Carpenter provides a knowledgeable insight into Thomas Aquinas method…

Saint Augustine (d. 430) was one of the most influential members of the early Christian church. He was skilled at oration, learned in the liberal arts, and was fond of the philosophies of Neo-Platonism. In the year 397, Augustine began the work Confessions, an autobiography, which depicted his conversion to Christianity. His conversion to Christianity follows the path of one searching for truth. His account in Confessions relies heavily on the Bible. Throughout his life, the Bible meant…

Augustine changed the locus of control of human behavior from forces outside the person to forces inside the person by suggesting humans acquire free will. He stated people are responsible for their actions and behaviors, which results in them accountable for their own destiny. He clarified that evil is the result of humans choosing evil over good. Lastly, personal guilt became an imperative part of controlling human behavior. Avicenna was a child genius and physician growing up. He wrote many…

Irena Sendlers Irena Sendlers was born on February 15, 1910, in Warsaw, Poland. She was born as Irena Krzyzanowska. Her parents were Dr. Stanislaw and Janina Krzyzanowska. She didn’t have any siblings. Later on, she had two children, a son, and a daughter. The daughter's name is Janka, she still lives in Warsaw, Poland. The son’s name was Adam, he died in 1999. What She Studied Irena studied Polish literature at Warsaw University. At some universities, they had a ghetto-bench system.…

In The City of God, written by Saint Augustine, he talks extensively about peace and the importance of it. In Book ⅩⅠⅩ is where he specifically speaks of peace. In the book, he explores the idea of everyone desires peace in their life, peace in the Earthly City and Heavenly City, and the differences between the two. When entering Book ⅩⅠⅩ, Saint Augustine starts off by saying that peace is the ultimate goal as he says “we could say of peace, as we have said of eternal life, that it is the…

“The Confessions” is one of the many books that Augustine had written over the course of his lifetime. It may seem like a difficult read, but it is definitely worth getting into. Some of the topics he speaks about range from his misunderstanding of scripture, his concupiscence, and his conception of sins which is the topic of this paper analysis. In Augustine’s point of view, there are more than just the seven deadly sins that we all are familiar with. Most of “The Confessions” is filled with…

teachings are discussed over 800 years and still posses an extreme amount value to the Church. The years that followed resulted in Saint Thomas Aquinas becoming more and more educated, earning a master’s degree in theology, and teaching in many schools. Alongside his time teaching he wrote many philosophical works that brought him fame and attention throughout the religious community. In 1259, Saint Thomas Aquinas was appointed as the papal theologian in Rome, but in the same year he would be…

The Journey to Saint Hood After reading the book “Confessions of Saint Augustine,” I felt comfortable being able to write my semester paper over this book. This book begins with the life of Saint Augustine. The first nine books (chapters) are mostly made up of the younger days, birth to middle aged, to around the time he converted to Catholicism. For this paper, I went back through and re-read the book to try and interrupt some of the dialogue better than I did the first time. After reading…