Vida Ugochukwu Introduction To European Civilization- Midterm-Essay In his book Confessions Saint Augustine uses the theme of stoicism and Platonism throughout the different chapters (or in these case books) in throughout the entire book. He shows us his struggle with evil and the nature of God and how he overcame and found a solution for both issues. Saint Augustine uses stoicism in abundance throughout Confessions. Stoicism is when you show no strong emotion toward something that would usually
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Environmental Ethics Gaia Hypothesis (eco-holism) James Lovelock argues that we are part of planet earth and not masters of it. He argued for the existence of ’Gaia’ - a living system which controls the earth and keeps everything constant. Lovelock says that Gaia keeps the planet at a constant state of management. Lovelock says we shouldn’t be anthropocentric (focussing solely on ourselves) but biocentric‚ and says that Gaia restores balance to the imbalance caused by humans. The earth is‚ Lovelock
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Evodius (the interlocutor) and Augustine himself. In this dialogue‚ Evodius and Augustine delve into an argument regarding the author or source of evil in the world. Initially Evodius questions Augustine if God is the author of evil and Augustine’s standpoint on this statement is based from a theoretical and existential angle: Evil doesn’t exist because it’s simply the privation or lack of good. Augustine points out that God gave us free will and if we think that God is good then is blasphemous
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1. Discuss the differences between Ambrose’s‚ Augustine’s‚ and Christina of Markyate’s ideas about ethical responses to the rape or threatened rape of dedicated virgins. St. Ambrose believed that the appropriate response to rape was for the virgin to commit suicide to save her Chasity. Even in his passage‚ “On Virgins‚” it states that the Holy Mary needs to either sacrifice herself or be sentenced to a brothel. St.Augustine first states that it was unfair for Lucretia to have been a victim of adultery
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"through" a vision of the exemplary acts of its bearers." (Plato) God God is an intangible‚ impersonal entity that encompasses and is the precondition for all ideas‚ all reality‚ all of the "Forms" but is not a religious interpretation and thus does not coincide with any standard view of who or what God is. The point is not to establish an idea of God‚ but instead to determine what is right‚ good‚ just‚ and true; God is the precondition or origin of the Forms or the "timeless‚ abstract
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the position of Augustine on the nature of our will‚ the one which the Catholic Church holds as doctrine‚ is revealed to be much less conflicting than we initially perceive it to be. Before discussing the how Anselm’s principles of free will provide clarification for the nature of free will and God’s role in the world‚ it is important to understand the
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Summary of St. Thomas Aquinas’ 5 Ways of Proving God’s Existence In the thirteenth century‚ St. Thomas Aquinas formulated the famous ‘Five Ways’ of proving God’s existence. These five ways were not regarded as proofs in a scientific way but rather it is a step‚ in the sense of believing God. The ‘Five Ways’ are: First‚ The Argument of Unmoved Mover. It states that whatever is in motion is moved by another thing; that thing is also moved by something. So‚ in order to prevent continuity‚ you
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The Divided Line in The Confessions of Saint Augustine “He who knows the truth‚ knows the light‚ and he who knows it knows eternity.” (171). Saint Augustine explains throughout The Confessions the challenges he faced in search for the divinity truth. The struggles and triumphs Saint Augustine conquered at each level of the Divided Line presented in Plato’s The Republic. In Book I of the Confessions‚ Augustine describes his early childhood as being deceitful. He emphasizes on the teachings
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both Saint Augustine in Confessions and Dante in Purgatorio go through religious journeys as they tell the story of their lives. Both have many similarities‚ such as having to undergo self-reflection as they strive towards knowing God. However‚ they are also different; while Dante’s journey happens in Purgatory‚ Augustine’s happens on Earth. Not all religious journeys are exactly the same‚ but many contain a lot of the same elements that help to classify them as religious journeys. Augustine and Dante’s
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1. The UTRUM: "Whether or not it is the case that there is proof for God ’s existence." 2. The VIDETUR: "It seems that the existence of God can be proven in five ways by the Cosmological Argument." Saint Thomas Aquinas‚ put forth his own theory on the existence of God. In his text "Whether God Exists"‚ he stated that through his five arguments he could prove God ’s existence. His five arguments are from motion‚ from first efficient cause‚ from possibility and necessity‚ from gradation
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