The Good Life According to Saint Augustine

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The paper discusses how from reading "Confessions", it can be seen that Saint Augustine's life without God is a miserable one, and to truly experience the emotions of joy and happiness, there must be a relationship with the creator. It looks at how Augustine's life was dramatically changed after becoming a Christian and how true love and joy became fundamental parts of his life.

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"After Augustine started a relationship with God, his life changed dramatically. He was experiencing emotion like never before. He was charged with feelings he had only somewhat felt before; finally truly experiencing the love and happiness that he so sought out during his life of sin. This new sense of elation Augustine feels is perfectly demonstrated in the passage Late Have I Loved You. "Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new; late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all" (Augustine, 201). From this excerpt, we can see the newfound passion Augustine had for his life and for the Lord. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Augustine. Saint Augustine Confessions. Trans. Henry Chadwick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

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