St. Augustine, City of God excerpts on anthropology (Book X.1 (first 3 paragraphs only), XIV.1, 13, 28; XIX.11 & 13; and XXII.22).

As you go through the readings ask:

1.      What type of anthropology is Augustine discussing in each of the different excerpts?

2.      How do people behave?

3.      Does man have an end or purpose?

4.      What, according to Augustine, is "happiness," also called “felicity” and “blessedness”?

5.      What is the greatest or highest good for man?

6.      What is the “city of God”?

7.      What is the “city of man”?

8.      What is the “human condition”—the essential character of our earthly life?