PSCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Roman Republic
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Set stage to understand st augustine; looked at his life, his time (era) as it is important to his political anthropology/philosophy. Conclusion= man is damned because he is a fallen creature as he is part of nature and nature is fallen. Adam and eve= urge to disobey god and thus man is damned to a fallen nature. However there is hope because there is grace, a gift of god is grace (means in greek= * nicene creed as the christian constitution. Fallen man results in the fallen nature = two cities (a city of man and a city of god) (top of page 2) Two kinds of love; 1) love of the flesh (2) love of the spirit. City of man= about the flesh (pgs 6-7) City of man is a means to an end of the city of god= transfers over to st. thomas. First man was bad (takeos) man and was prehumen of sense (page 11 second paragraph)