Lord Of The Flies Augustine's Theory Of Will

Many people claim that one’s true nature is often exposed at times of fear. As seen in the classic novel entitled “Lord of the flies”, people become selfish and irrational at times of fear. One case in the novel was that the twins thought they saw a beast when it actually only was a dead corpse clung onto a parachute; another was that Jack wanted to be the leader only for his selfish reasons. Also seen in real stampedes (due to fires, earthquakes and criminal-related activities), some people solely think of their own safety and unconsciously hurt other people by bumping onto them (and not helping them stand up) or accidentally stepping on a part of another’s body (especially when one has fallen onto the floor); Although, there are people who

He was known as the first major philosopher that introduced will in a detailed account. From an early age, he had been in a moral turmoil; and wanting to change for the better was his primary motivation to achieve wisdom. However there was one point in his life wherein he was intellectually ready to change his life but, his will was not willing to. Later discussions between medieval authors included the relationships between the will and passions, and another on the relationship between the will and the intellect; Resulting from such discourses was the conception that the will is a faculty subject to complex dispositions. Augustine then develops his ‘Theory of the will’ and ‘Theory of grace’; First which states that all significant virtues of charity and justice are dispositions of the will; and the latter states that understanding requires the intellect to be illuminated by the divine, as well as the will needs to be infused with virtue for that moral goodness to be achieved. Augustine further emphasized on the importance of grace: as every action requires the infusion with grace, even the free acceptance of grace requires grace. Thomas Bradwardine restated this in his On God’s Cause against Pelagius “no philosophical or moral virtue is a true virtue, absolutely right or just, without charity and grace perfecting it. Without these, every such action is in some way a