Saint Augustine's Return To Thagaste

Saint Augustine had returned to Thagaste and manages to become a teacher in order to make some money. “During these years I was teaching the art of rhetoric, selling talkative skills apt to sway others because greed swayed me” Then Augustine also meets a woman, we never get her name, but he is actually sexually faithful too (2,2). Augustine starts to learn an about astrology, he starts to make some progress towards truth. Although one of his close friends named Nebridus, persuades him to throw away his books about astrology (3,6). One of Augustine’s close friends from Thagaste passes away. Even though you do not get the name of his close friends you can tell it has a negative impact on Augustine. This was his friend who grew up with him and had a major impact on him during his childhood. Feeling very depressed from the lost of his close friend, Augustine then leaves Thagaste and heads back towards Carthage (7,12). From his learnings about transience, Augustine learns that every material object, will always be subjected to a beginning and an ending (10,15). Saint Augustine then manages to construct these books which he called “The Beautiful and Harmonious”. These books explain the two different types of beauty in the world. One explains how beauty can be inherited, while the
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