st augustine in the inferno

Title: st augustine in the inferno
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st augustine in the inferno

St.Augustine in the Inferno It is hard to place St. Augustine within just one of the levels of Dante’s hell for his sins were varied and not great. Today many of his sins are commonplace. For example, most people attempt to better their own lives without regard of others. They attempt to increase their standard of living and gain more worldly possessions. They are neither good nor evil but are just trying to …showed first 75 words of 1182 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1182 total…sins committed by Augustine, opportunity and carnal desire, I am forced to place him in circle two.  Works Cited Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. translator John Ciardi /Norton. 1286-1423. Augustine, Aurelius. Confessions. translator F. J. Sheed / Norton. 982-1008. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. Eds. Maynard Mack, Bernard M. W. Knox, John C. McGalliard, P. M. Pasinetti, Howard E. Hugo, Patricia M. Spacks, René Wellek, Kenneth Douglas, and Sarah Lawall. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.

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