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Philosophical Role of Saint Augustine

In five pages this paper examines the contributions of Saint Augustine to philosophy's history and development. Five sources are ...

Works of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Augustine, and Saint Paul

appetite for sex...amounts to being enslaved" and is essentially a sin (Armstrong, 1998). Armstrong (1998) indicates that there ...

Manicheism Rejected Gradually by St. Augustine

This paper consists of six pages and considers how Manicheism is gradually rejected by St. Augustine in an examination of the fift...

Biography and Arguments of Saint Augustine of Hippo

In four pages this paper presents an autobiography of Saint Augustine and also considers his arguments on the existence of God....

Memory in the Tenth Book of Confessions by St. Augustine

not be found unless it were in ones memory. Chapter XIX tells what it is to remember. In Augustines...

Philosophy Topics

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

Evil and Philosophy II

In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...

Judaism, Christianity, and Life's Meaning

outlook by blaming someone or something else, thus we will remaining in a ?status quo? personality and spirit all our life, never ...

The Early Christians and the Ancient Greeks Comparing Their Gods

Looking at Saint Augustine's 'Confessions' and Homer's 'The Iliad', the author finds characters and situations that represent the ...

Analyzing the Tribute by Augustine to Monica, His Mother

debate in terms of wanting a peaceful and inner spiritual life and letting go of his past indiscretions (St. Augustine, Bishop of ...

Gothic Cathedral and Dante

moderation. We can see this as he puts those people in the first stages of hell, which had been neutral -nothing good-nothing bad...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Human Nature According to Saint Augustine and Plato

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

TV Viewing's Pros and Cons

and other shows have introduced a world of learning to toddlers and the preschool set. There are educational shows for adults and ...

Augustine and Plato

Victorinus by Plato. This seems to have moved Augustine from the point of simply musing about immortality into an assurance about ...

Doctrine of the Trinity and Saint Augustine

either good or evil. There was no "middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his...

Life and Works of Saint Augustine

how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...

Contributions of Augustine of Hippo

like St. Augustine, a man from centuries before, was of the same mind, he clearly would have influenced the people and made them s...

Biography of St. Augustine

but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...

Man and the Creation of Fear and God

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

Truth in the Works of Saint Augustine of Hippo and Jonathan Swift

on to reflect that the skins of women at home appear beautiful because we cannot see these small defects under normal circumstance...

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Evil in the World

In five pages this paper examines how evil exists in the world in a comparative analysis of Saint Augustine of Hippo's Free Will d...

Freedom of Choice and Evil According to Aristotle and Saint Augustine of Hippo

This paper contrasts and compares how choice and evil were conceptualized by Aristotle and Saint Augustine. Eight sources are cit...

The Comparative Contrasts of Augustine and Aristotle

In an analytical essay comprised of six pages the similarities and differences between Saint Augustine and Aristotle are examined ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Classical Philosophy's Influence

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Hamlet's characterization was influenced by the philosophies of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Plat...

Various Philosophical Perspectives on Vice

In seven pages this research paper considers the views of Butler, Johnson, Abelard, Saint Augustine, and Plutarch on vice. Six so...

Plato's Influence On St. Augustine

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

Did Plato Influence St. Augustine

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

Confessions Book I

African parents. His mother was Catholic and his father converted to Christianity in his later years. As a boy, Augustine studied ...