Augustine Evaluation
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- Created on: 29-01-19 14:41
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- Augustine Evaluation
- Scientific
- Dawkins
- Original Sin is absurd and dangerous
- Literal belief in A+E is senseless – modern science supports the idea that humans evolved from less sophisticated forms of animal life
- Christians have an unhealthy obsessions with sin associated with sex.
- Dawkins
- Logical
- Edward Gibbons
- "His learning is too often borrowed and his arguments too often his own”
- Aug. seems to deny human capacity for perfection. Post-Enlightenment Philosophy and Ethics challenges this (Kant, duty, autonomy, reason).
- Ian Barbour
- Many do not take the Creation story literally but it can be used to shed light on humans and their relationship with the world.
- Aug. insights into love and friendship can still be used but less so his work on the Fall.
- Frued
- Sex is an important +natural aspect of human development; whereas Aug. link between sex and transmission of sin makes it necessary for reproduction
- Religion creates guilt + sexual repression as a result of indecency in the past
- Edward Gibbons
- Moral
- Kant
- Salvation through ‘reason alone’ (for Aug. it was through God’s grace alone).
- Agreed with Hobbes that conflict is in our nature.
- Powerful human emotions and desires CAN cause us to act selfishly
- Kant
- Scientific
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