Philosophy - Confessions: Book 5 & 6

They may acknowledge the world around them, but they lack the proper attitude because they don’t seek God with humility and reverence. One must approach God with a spirit of humility, respect, and worship. Without this attitude, even true knowledge about creation cannot lead to a deeper understanding of God

Augustine is acknowledging that philosophers or intellectuals, know many truths about creation, BUT?

Digression

Natural science and the essence of religious faith

Gravely ill and saved by his mother’s prayers

On the way from Carthage to Rome, Augustine fell?

Manichaeism

In Carthage he turned to?

Academic Skepticism, emphasized impossibility of certain knowledge

In Rome, he turned to?

He was in a period of intellectual uncertainty and ended up rejecting it

Augustine was draw to Academic Skepticism because?

Faith and reason

He believed that Truth was real and accessible through?

In material terms, vast but infinite physical substance

Before his conversion, he believed as God as?

Immaterial, incorporeal, and outside space and time

Later on, Augustine realizes God as….

God was pure spiritual substance, but evil was heavy and dark substance

In his Manichaean Period, he believed…

Not a substance, but a privation of good, rather than a thing itself

Later on, Augustine realizes that evil was…

Sole creator of all things, including matter and not evil itself

Augustine was able to see God as….

A divine mystery and does not compromise God’s nature

Augustine realizes that Incarnation is…

More spiritual problems

Augustine realizes that money causes?

Heart and mind

Monica’s faith moved his ________, and Ambrose’s mind moved his ________

Clinging to ambition, sexual relationships, and unsolved doubts

Even though he was more engaged to Christian faith in Milan, he was still…

Couldn’t marry yet because she was too young, but had to send away his concubine and stayed with his son; Adeodatus

Had an arrange marriage but?