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AUGUSTINE & AQUINAS

BY WILL SYME
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AUGUSTINE'S PHILOSOPHY

  • Medieval philosopher
  • Search for peace within himself
  • Also search for peace within Christianity
  • Ideas based off of neo-platonist
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DE GENESI

  • A hierarchy of three levels
  • Search for a paradise in humanity
  • Requires cooperation between God and man
  • Body and soul are flawed
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HIERARCHY OF DE GENESI

  • God being primary
  • Contemplation & awareness
  • Natural world before reason
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CITY OF GOD

  • Flesh is the identity to humans
  • Flesh may be good or bad
  • Flesh's role is pleasure
  • Faith and reason will bring salvation
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NATURAL LAW

  • Humans have tendencies to follow:
  • 1. Self preservation
  • 2. Family
  • 3. Established Society
  • 4. Universality
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TRANSITION TO AQUINAS

  • Both philosophers are Christian
  • Seek to know truth in God's revalation
  • See good and bad in objects
  • God is seen through senses
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THOMAS AQUINAS

  • Faith and reason
  • Reason and revalation
  • Theology
  • Reality
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SUMMA THEOLOGICA

  • Review and addition to Augustine
  • Also used Aristotle's ideas
  • Reason used to explain God
  • God was the source for reason
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REASON TO GOD

  • Reason is neccesary to explain God
  • Greater power is the answer
  • The ability to know
  • Theoretical and practical revelation
  • Theology can be considered a science
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•Grace is a gift given by God
•Used to interact with nature
•Used to interact with others
•Faith enhances grace

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WATER TO WINE

  • Humans are like water
  • God is like wine
  • Faith allows us to see God
  • Salvation is the conversersion over to wine
  • We receive God through wine
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PROOF OF GOD: MOTION

  • Change = motion
  • Actuality of change is being
  • Being cannot create itself
  • Principle of non-contradiction
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"I AM WHO AM" - EX. 3:14

  • All motion comes from another
  • Where could first motion come from?
  • Greater power must have set motion
  • That greater power is God
  • Human existence through God
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ANALYSIS ON AUGUSTINE

  • He sees humans living in 3 levels
  • Humans are flawed
  • Living with human reason from God
  • Humans live with good and evil
  • All live with some instincts
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ANALYSIS ON AQUINAS

  • God is at the top of human knowledge
  • Not all can reason God's existence
  • Theology is a science
  • God is self evident
  • Five proofs of God are valid
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Will Syme