Hello Mickey!

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Just wanted to share my Reflection Paper.

Just wanted to share my Reflection Paper in Philosophy. Its kinda lame. I've been very busy lately, and my writing skills has eventually...well lets say...been slacking off. xD


OLIMPO, WINONA YVONNE B.
JULY 24, 2013; 9:30

REFLECTION PAPER

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, with thy whole soul and with thy whole strength: and for love of God thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
My understanding about St. Augustine’s theory is all about God. And to be “godly” one should love whole heartedly, be pure in any sense without hatred in your heart, passion in everything that you do, being kind to yourself and to others and to love God as your one and only, “God”.
St. Augustine revolved around the church, around his faith into God and his belief that God is the most powerful being on earth. He is the beginning and the end, the reason everyone is alive and the reason why we have a purpose in this earth. And our main purpose is to know Him, worship Him, and Love Him above all things.
"It is beyond doubt that the one cause of fear is either that we will lose what we love after attaining it or that, despite all our hopes, we will never attain it at all." (De div. quaest. 33).
Every Man wants to be happy in this world. Who isn’t? St. Augustine proceeds with questioning what a person should obtain to achieve happiness since happiness is a matter of having what one wants in order to be happy. The main theme of Augustine’s thought on happiness concerns our vulnerability to the material things of this world. We are consumed by our wants than our needs, that’s why we tend to be happy when we get these desires of the body. The money, the fame, the glory and wealth are some of these things. But in truth, they are not everlasting. They may fade but at the end of the day, we were never really happy, we may have been happy, but for a short while. For one to be happy, he/she should focus on one main goal, and that is to love God and despite everything, when one accepted God in his/her life, one can finally find peace and when one has finally found it, he/she can finally be happy.



No comments:

Post a Comment

Total Pageviews