Augustine And Love

How does Augustine define love? Augustine stated constantly that he had no love, but he fell in love with love. This sentence has no meaning to me. I do not think anyone can fall in love with something unless I understand what love is. "I have not fallen in love yet, but I hate love in love, and I do not dislike that I am not strongly aware of the need from the depths I need." (P.35) I think many of Augustine's words about love are very interesting.

Augustine stressed that love is an important role in his moral philosophy. Men naturally like that. For Augustine, people like multiple ways, and there are two most common ways. Because it is useful for us, people like useful things where someone likes something. McDonald's is proud of the slogan "Love Ko". Just as McDonald fulfills the desire for a hamburger, a kind of love that fulfills our own desire. Another love described by Augustine is more inner love. This is our love for others. Augustine argues that this love is different from instrumental love. Because we do not love others for their practicality, sometimes this is actually opposite. Augustine argues that this love is inhumane. Because, as a person, a man was built in the statue of God.

Martin Heidegger refers to the explanation of Augustine's philosophy at several important moments in the influential work "Existence and Time". Hannah Arendt started her philosophical writing in Augustine 's concept of love, Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin (1929). "Attempts of political limit linking Augustin's Jean Beske Elssthen and Augustine's evil concept: Augustine does not believe that evil is a demon, but it is thought that it lacks kindness and contradiction ing. Allndt ... figured out the ultimate badness that made the Holocaust ordinary. "

At the age of 17, Augustine fell in love with a woman who had never mentioned her name. Augustine played this relationship mainly in "confessions" but he explained that he was obsessed with romantic love and was unable to control his desire for desire, however, Unfortunately, he felt he could not marry her because her social class was low. The first of several important turning points in Augustine's life took place when he read Cicero's Ortensius at the age of 19, and he was converted to a higher philosophical life . "It gave me different values ​​and priorities, suddenly the hope of all vanities grew empty, my heart was full of incredible enthusiasm, craving wisdom and immortality.Orgas Ting's wisdom new desire let him accept the Bible, but he was disappointed in his immature Latin prose, and he felt silent compared to "dignity of Cicero."