St. Augustine Research Paper

St. Augustine the Roman Philosopher
St. Augustine was man of many substances, he was scholarly man, and he was a person that fought with his temptation as a child growing up. Augustine could have become a lawyer but he chose to follow his faith and become a priest. He is a man of his teaching and he makes you believe or question his teaching but you still come away that he knows what he is talking about. Before he became a Saint, Augustine was born in a small city in Northern Africa in the town of Thagaste. He lived with his parents who believe that the town of Thagaste provided him with a knowledge and influence. His father Patrick was a landholder, and his mother Monnicca was illiterate but in the book (St. Augustine’s Child Hood), it says she had a“natural shrewdness to match her Christian piety." (Wills)) (pg3).Augustine parents sent him off to a town called Madauros for more study in literary teaching. Of his returned home, his father couldn’t support his study in graduate school so a Romanian; millionaire made Augustine his apprentice and after a tough time in Thagaste, young Augustine went on to complete his studies in Carthage. In Thagaste, Augustine fell in love with a woman he would live with for the next fifteen years.
Augustine believe in the moral code of ethics and ultimate good and how one person can maintain it.Augustine thought that all human pursue the final happines is not true he believed that ‘if one means to suggest that all individuals have the same conception of happiness.” (Kretzman 206).In my research on the Saint who was Augustine,I found him to be remarkable man who grew up in a family that wanted him to succeed in life become a lawyer “marry up”but he chose a different path.He question himself about his sins and mistakes as a young man.He became a philsopher writing books about free will and he discover his mistake and corrected it or made changes to his belief.Augustine was a scholar and