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WHAT IS HUMAN NATURE?
INTERPRETATION OF THE FALL ↳ Hobbes said it was "solitary, It seems unfair of God to punish us for
↳ Augustine thinks Adam + the social poor, nasty, brutish + short" something we didn't do. Is there any
contract
lived in perfect harmony in theory ↳ Rousseau said "man is born point of living morally? GRACE: (rebuttle to Pelagius' un
the Garden Of Eden, where free and everywhere He is in ↳ Augustine argues however that God ↳ Humans can freely receive
everything was in God's chains: - society has messed can give us grace God will elect people who will
"image or likeness" up life. in heaven - a sign of God's
• they had everything they ↳ However, AUGUSTINE thought ↳ It also seems unfair for almost all of Grace is the only thing that
needed differently: that God was humanity to be defined by sec. Many us from going to hell.
• no threats made in the "image of God" modern theologians argue that sec is ↳ The summum bonum is part of
• in harmony with God but at the fall, human a healthy part of life. Is this idea and only (available for some.
• obedient to God (goodwill) nature was damaged and Clouded by Augustine's difficulty to control > eternal happiness-o
• they had sec without lust we battle this through our his own desires. happiness is avail
(and as friends). lives with our relationship
↳ Augustine then believes after with sin. PESSIMISTIC OR OPTIMISTIC? PELAGIUS EX
Eve was tempted by Satan, Evolution > Sartre thought ↳ PESSIMISTIC: > Human
they were banished, lost suggests human Marx thought there was no basic ↳ we are tainted from the moment God wo
connection with God and nature is always we are creative human nature-we we are born. imposs
the will was corrupted. evowing + becoming beings and we make our own essence ↳ there is little opportunity to develop ↳ It mus
↳ The effect of the fall made less primitive. adapt to different through the choices. from our 'fallen nature' a mor
our will clouded, as Paul people and situations. Augustine said it ↳ We cannot escape concupiscence. don't h
says in Romans 7: "I do was a double death, ↳ we aren't free beings. will.
not understand what I do. ORIGINAL SIN: between God's relationship ↳ OPTIMISTIC: ↳ We shou
For what I want to do, I do ↳ For Augustine, original sin characterises with us and our mortality. ↳ God's grace helps us when we are just
not do, but what I hate human nature and changes it. Ever since undeserving. ↳ August
to do.'' the fall, our will is weak, and we The catechism of the ↳ Jesus saved us from sin. is des
↳ Augustine angued from lack control over our social desires. Catholic Church says: ↳ The Churen can help us on our Holocau
this that rust begins ↳ Therefore, no human can ever be "by the 'unity of the human journey-e.g. baptism!
to rule human relationships, truly good. race; all men are implicated ↳ Faith can guide us to the Summum
and we lose control over ↳ Each human from then on is in Adam's sin" + "it is Bonum.
our desires. born out of lust (accept Jesus) a sin'contracted' and not
↳ Augustine relies on a literal and original sin is passed on 'committed?"
THE FAIL - when Adam + Eve disobeyed God by eating from
interpretation of the Genesis story- through humans.
forbidden tree, humans are fallen' because of this.
is it unlikely that we are still tainted ↳ Most would argue that society
HUMAN NATURE - the essential sense of what humans are li
by an act from so long ago? is disadvantaged because of
(our shared characteristics)
↳ Pelagius argued that Adam + Eve's social desires having a
SIN - turning away from the will of God.
act only affected them-not passed disproportionate role.
CONCUPISCENCE - the idea that we are inclined towards
on through reproduction-he
only set a bad example. However, some would argue that
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