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Is Human Nature Simply The Enjoyment Of Sin?
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In Saint Augustine's Confessions, the quote "β¦the world is drunk with the invisible wine of its own perverted, earthbound will" masterfully describes the broadest underlying concept of human nature as the will to sin. However, Augustine develops this concept much deeper, expanding a definition that can be compared to that of Thucydides in His ....
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....cydides.
Augustine, much the same, uses his own personal experiences to show the domination of sin in humankind. He starts this account by describing the selfishness and jealousy of infants. "But in those days all I knew was how to suck, and how to lie still when my body sensed comfort or cry when it felt pain" (Augustine 25, 28). As an infant, .... |
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