PHIL1070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Manichaeism
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The more augustine loved, the more miserable he felt. Augustine can identify with actors on a stage (ex. when they feel love, he feels happy; when they have fear, he feels afraid etc. ) If he can identify so well with others, why can"t he solve his own problems. Manichean beliefs two principles = two gods (two physical bodies: good vs. bad, good completes the bad; bad completes the good, good is equal to bad, continuous fight between good and bad. Augustine"s counter to manichean: god cannot be in the same form as humans; rather he is a spirit, evil isn"t a being; rather, it"s the absence of good. Humans are limited because we are material while god is limitless because he is a spirit.
