PHIL 1091 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Original Sin, Good Works, Social Contract
3 Sep 2014
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Not interested in the happiness or ultimate good of the ruler. Know how to assess risks and accept the lesser evil as a good (pascal) Notion of right and wrong, justice and injjustce have no place in the son. 3 causes of quarrel: competition, diffidence, and glory. Freedom is the ability to govern oneself, to govern oneself, one must understand. Original sin made things harder, but not impossible. Constant temptation, but human nature is still good regardless. Humans know what is good because we inherently know what is bad. Cannot love what is outside us, love what is within but not us. Man"s true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature, therefore anything can be good. Christian, for luther, is freedom from law and commandments. We are free from commandments, because the promises of god give what the commandments of. God demand. the commands demand righteousness, god promises righteousness by faith alone.
