Augustine

Augustine

Human beings are depicted as imperfect beings whose only virtue is in having faith in god, not trying to seek god. It is once the god who gives hope and clears the path for human.

However, questioning the existence of god most definitely attracts me. Like the three primary Manichee criticisms of Catholic belief, concerns in existence of god increases as I see events occurring throughout the world modern days. Natural disasters, poverty, war, and all the misfortunes that numerous people are inevitably faced everywhere only leads my mind to be critical towards the philosophical definition given by Saint Augustine, who believes in god who is a Being, a spirit.

The divide in the philosophies of Manichees and St. Augustine's defense lies in the split between the material and the spiritual. The criticisms of Manichees center around the physical existence of God, and the witnessed evils of the world, as their own cosmology is centered around the notion of physical entities. Yet, St. Augustine's God is distinguished precisely because He cannot be described; He is indefinable, neither a physical source of things of a soul; the abstractness of His existence, "Being," pervades everything because it is the most pure version of any form of existence.

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