Comparing St. Augustine's Confessions And Michael De Montaigne

Only individuals can truly understand their true selves. However, a huge deal of self-assessment must be done by that particular individual to fully understand himself or herself. This can thus be attained by having a solid desire of understanding oneself. Examples of two individuals who desired to understand together with defining therselves through self-assessment of their lives at large through autobiography includes St. Augustine who narrated his story in his personal narrative called “Confessions” and Michael de Montaigne who wrote a set of essays. They are helped to reflect on past disposition they may have had by their autobiographical method of understanding themselves. Additionally, they are able to handle any mistaken belief that was previously held. Thus, particular challenges that were experienced by each other as hindrances to understanding the self will be examined by this essay. Also, the difference between how each author stresses self-knowledge will be examined.
“Confessions” includes an autobiography of spiritual journey of Augustine. It also includes his growth as an individual, where this will finally help him to understand
Montaigne knew that he was greater than indigenous people, where he based this notion on the given knowledge of the European people. Nevertheless, Montaigne realizes more of his humbleness than of theirs after he assesses “cannibals” further. He learns that the aspects of cannibals in their culture exceeds that of his own culture even though many of their customs are seen as primitive. Also, he realizes that the Europeans actually misrepresent the natives. For instance, Montaigne, based on moral speaking, evaluates that sophistication is mostly observed in those despised by his society, to an extent of labelling them as