Augustine: on infancy, sin, and the beginnings of things.

St. Augustine. Tiffany stained-glass window,
the Lightner Museum.
St. Augustine, Florida.

Last time we discussed the question of how people plan to be satisfied, or "What is the good life?" Much has been written in response to this in the Classical Age, and it was perhaps largely because of the influence of Augustine's Confessions that the question of the good life was something that occupied many medieval thinkers hence.

Agenda:

1. Pater noster
2. Cantamus.
3. Read Confessions silently.
4. ICE (8/23): SAT Prompt 4
1. On the "Information Age"
5. Session II Dialogue Question: How does an infant learn to sin?
6. Reading Journal (8/23): Augs, Book I (analysis & inference)
1. From TEXT:
1. Is it wrong for a child to cry when it wants food?
2. What evidence does Augs give that a child can be jealous? 
3. Why does Augs say that babies are sometimes thought of as more innocent?
4. What do the sins of infancy lead to?
5. What was the first cause of prayer in Augustine's life?
6. According to Augs, how and when do we learn to sin? 
2.  From CULTURE:
1. Is this different from what our modern culture says? From whence  does "sin" come? Within or without?
3. From BIBLE:
1. What does the Bible say about sin and its origin in one's life?
7. Copy down HW:
1. Study and read Confessions.
2. Este perfecti!