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Is Human Nature Simply The Enjoyment Of Sin?
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In Saint Augustine's Confessions, the quote "…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 t ....
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....se 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, Augustine argues, one is solely concerned with gaining comfort, food, and attention, regardless of who has to suffer for this to happen. He furthers his account by explaining the sins he did in his boyhood years, including playing games instead of writing and studying. "But we sinned by reading and writing and studying less than was expected of us" (.... |
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