THEO10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Manichaeism, Docetism, Gnosticism
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Augustine"s confessions: books 3-6: our hearts are restless until they rest in you . Babies illustrate how we are all motivated by the urge to fulfill our immediate desires. But even adults, with self-control and reason, still end up harming themselves in an attempt to make themselves happy. Book two: teenage years: core confusion: sexuality (confusing caritas and cupiditas) Caritas: love; loving things for their own goof or the goodness of god you can see in it. Cupiditas: lust; loving something for how it makes you feel; misguided love: the pear tree incident: Augustine stole pears because he enjoyed being bad to impress his friends. Under the influence of others, augustine revels in doing wrong for the sake of being bad. Deeper meanings: the human search for happiness: Augustine was simply trying to be happy, and he found that lower things (food, entertainment, sex, success, power) didn"t really make him happy; he found frequently fleeting happiness.
