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Augustine/Aquinas

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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1.

AUG. CONTRIBUTIONS

  • 2 definitions of flesh
  • Hierarchy of beings.
  • Manichaen beliefs
  • Confessions
  • Love and happiness
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MAJOR ISSUES

  • What has come about after The Fall
  • How evil exists
  • Why humans make evil choises
  • The main focus of a science
  • What the mind can know directly
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AUG. ON EVIL

  • Evil resides in the human will
  • No human efforts can undue this
  • Evil precipitated by human pride
  • Evil cannot exist without goodness
  • Evil lacks goodness
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AUG. ON THE MIND

  • Something must be known directly
  • Representation vs. reality
  • The mind knows itself directly
  • Mind not limited to mental/internal
  • Mind has truths that doesn't come through senses
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5.

DE GENESI

  • Relationship b/w soul and God
  • Pre-lapsarian and Post-lapsarian
  • Soul changes b/c of Fall
  • Soul changes b/c of free will & desires
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6.

CITY OF GOD

  • FLesh is good and bad
  • Flesh is bad b/c of the will
  • Flesh is good b/c we follow God
  • Good flesh = City of God
  • Bad flesh = City of Man
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OPINION ON AUG.

  • Need to follow God
  • Do not disobey Truth
  • Avoid evil and do good
  • Mind directly knows certain things
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AQUINAS CONTRIBUTIONS

  • 5 proofs of God
  • Faith and Reason
  • Challenged theory of Augustine
  • Things demonstrated by reason
  • Things demonstrated by revelation
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MAJOR ISSUES

  • God's existence can be proven
  • Different ways of knowing
  • Faith = Best Science
  • Reason = Lower Science
  • Scripture not part of philosophy
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MAJOR ISSUES CONT..

  • Don't know God's essence
  • Know God from effects
  • Knowledge of God= Innate
  • No one can deny truth
  • Investigation of God
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QUOTE ON GRACE & NATURE

  • Gifts of grace
  • Reason and knowledge
  • Already have light of faith
  • L.O.F strengthens our reason
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QUOTE ON WATER & WINTE

  • Sacred Doctrines
  • Use them to help faith
  • Don't mix faith, but get new faith
  • Wine = Current faith & Reason
  • Water = New faith
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FIRST PROOF OF GOD

  • Argument from Motion
  • If motion, it is put in motion
  • Every 'move' must be actual itself
  • Can't be infinitely long
  • Must have First Moved
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FIRST PROOF CONT..

  • Use our senses
  • Ex: Wood and Fire
  • Principle of Non-Contradiction
  • Ex: Can't be hot and cold
  • Potential to Actual
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SECOND PROOF OF GOD

  • Efficient Cause
  • No efficient cause of itself
  • Must have a first efficient cause
  • Effects of God = Cause = God
  • Can't go on infinitely.
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THIRD PROOF OF GOD

  • Possibility and Necessary
  • First existence
  • Nothing comes from nothing
  • 1st necessity had to cause itself
  • Use natural world for understanding
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FOURTH PROOF OF GOD

  • Gradation in things
  • More good & Less good
  • Good things mean we have Greatest Good
  • Greatest good =God
  • God causes all good things
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FIFTH PROOF OF GOD

  • Governance of World
  • Senses
  • Humans act for an end
  • Directed by a being
  • God aims humans to that end
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OPINION ON AQUINAS

  • God's existence is known
  • Never know God's essence
  • Use sacred doctrines & texts for faith
  • Senses are important
  • Develop a strong faith
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