How Did Augustine End His Pursuit Of Pleasure At His Convention

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Josh Medeles
Professor Musgrave
History 130
11/21/14
Augustine Paper The Confessions is an autobiography of a spiritual character and it covers 35 years of St. Augustine's life. It describes in detail his spiritual development and conversion to Christianity. This work is rather controversial and leaves many questionable thoughts on religion and philosophy after the reading. It is full of the religious debates over the topic of human pleasure. An attentive reader may face a question: did Augustine end his pursuit of pleasure at his convention? Augustine did not cease his search for pleasures after he had converted to Christianity in book VIII. Before this important event in his life, Augustine has never missed an opportunity to enjoy
New thoughts had influence on the society which had to get used to the constant struggle which was a result of significant changes. Similar changes were considered to be the most difficult and complicated in the development of culture and state, so in this way talent and outstanding abilities of those people who could radically influence the situation in the positive direction were manifested. Among these people was St. Augustine, who played an important role in the history of western theology as a representative of Neoplatonic philosophy which helped him to take the first step on the path to his conversion. Human nature is the same at all times and example of Aurelius Augustine, who lived seventeen centuries ago, can show people of the third millennium a meaningful way in the search of truth. Aurelius was born in the Christian-pagan family. By grace he gained an opportunity to comprehend the meaning of life and with the deepest faith he received an understanding of the sacrament of baptism and a free gift of eternal life. He had wandered through the dark roads in the search of the truth. He boldly experienced the various religious and philosophical doctrines, which guaranteed their followers a happy
This path is formed by the baptism, the rejection of hopes for a secular career and adopted chastity. These three components, seriously affected the choice of St. Augustine. It changed the way he saw life, as well as the path of life. In fact, Christianity does not prohibit and interfere into work, career or family, but the main hero took his conversion rather radically. Augustine managed to quit teaching, because he was severely ill. If he was not ill, he would not be able to leave. Aurelius was anticipating the time when he can devote him fully to