Concupiscence in Augustine and Aquinas

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Religion

 

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Gordon Y

 

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April 25, 2012

 

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University

 

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This casting out was not the only punishment, however. In the biblical story, the woman is specifically punished by God in that her childbearing will now be painful, and also in a loss of equality with her mate, who will now "rule over" her. In turn, the man is also punished, in that now he must laboriously work the soil in order to gain any food from it...
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Yet all of these punishments from the biblical story give no inkling of why it is human beings are inclined toward evil. Many early commentators on the biblical story, however, began to see how this first or original turning away from God, who is good, is the first instance of evil. They then argued that it must be on account of this first evil or original sin that human beings are inclined towards evil...
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