General Education Culture and Belief 31 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Well-Order, Misspent Youth, Evodius
21 Mar 2016
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Augustine 354-430 ce: born in north africa, had a life of sin misspent youth which he chronicles in his. Confessions, the city of god: becomes the bishop of hippo, dialogue between two friends, augustine and evodius, not adversarial like the. If you admit that sins come from the souls that god created pretty soon you"ll be tracing those sins back to god: augustine: you need to have faith in order to have knowledge. Good or bad, right or wrong defines the law. The right or wrong goes before the law. It is what makes you better than all animals. Recalls plato"s republic a well-ordered person is like a well-ordered city. A well- ordered city is one run by the wise. Only possibility only its own will and free choice can make the mind a companion of inordinate desire: evodius challenges: if i sin, i am stupid.
