Compare And Contrast Augustine And One Will

Augustine believes that on your own you can become a better person, but other people’s prides get in your way and make you worst, so you cannot become a better person. Augustin talks about two wills, one is the weak will and the other is the strong will. Two wills equal to I can will which is a habit and I cannot will which is an understanding that you are with God. A weak will is a will that gets overcome by other people, someone who makes you do things you do not want to do. Not following God 's way and trying to be better than your oneself. The question is what can we do to get God 's approval. That is an I can will and I cannot will is a will where you want to work on yourself and God. Always trying, but never getting there because

Augustine and his friends stole some pears from a privet residence house, after taking them, they did not eat them but instead just throw them away. Augustine says the theft itself was nothing, and for that reason I was the more miserable and the friends I was with were nothing too (“pg. 33”). Augustine talks about what he did was wrong, but he did not know why he did it, other than being in a group. Augustine states that if he was not in a group he would have not done it, but associated with the gang in whose company he was in he did it. When in a group you do things because other people say let’s do it. If you do not do it, then you cannot be in the group anymore, and everyone wants to be part of something. If you want to be an individual, you cannot be in a group because once you enter any type of group your individuality

In big groups of people who are protesting and one protester might start to riot in the streets, when that happens more protesters will join in. Not because they have a problem with those stores they broke into but because everyone else is doing it. We want to identify with other people and if they do something we tend to do it to. We want to do this because we want everyone to like us, even if it is something we would never do. Then there is object choice which is wanting to be with a person not matter what, always identify with that person, and wanting to be like that person. People will mold themselves in the image of that person that they identify with and dependence on others. Freud also talks about the conscious mind, unconscious mind and repressed. A conscious mind is your awareness of now. You are aware of something on the outside as well as some specific mental functions happening on the inside. For example, you are ware of your environment, your breathing, or the chair that you are sitting on. A unconscious mind is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that outside of our conscious awareness. And finally, repressed memory is the attempt made by an individual to direct one 's own desires and