Augustine's Research On The Ethics Of Criminal Responsibility

The problem of evil is an inevitable problem in many Christian,non believers to overthrow the religious belief,the problems about God.Augustine is a medieval Christian ethics,in order to establish the validity of Christianity,of course Augustine cannot escape the problem of evil.Augustine met by God himself,his youth "evil and evil" experience let him in the source of evil.He began to explore by Manichean attract think that the good and evil are two opposing entities,the cause of human evil is not self body.People just because of the evil entity,comrades of the dark gods,people will be evil People,so people don’t have to evil responsible.Augustine "evil and evil" experience also let Augustine thinking on the problem of evil will be affected by their own experience,so Augustine starting from their own feel Dualism between good and evil and personal of the moral intuition does not match,made him feel confused,so prompted him to seek a new way.After the Neoplatonism doctrine make Augustine realize a new interpretation.Neoplatonism thought that the lack of good is evil,evil is not real,is a kind of non existence.Only good is good,completely lack of evil,does not exist not so.The real evil.On the other hand,the Neoplatonism doctrine that human evil is free will,one can freely choose to do good or evil,the fall of Adam is proved.Augustine accepted the Neoplatonism thought,thought that the nature of evil is not really evil,the evil is the real crime.But Augustine also believe that human beings are in after the fall of Adam wasn’t really a good choice,not by virtue of their own perfect,only by accepting the grace of God to achieve perfection.The first chapter describes the changes of Augustine thought with Augustine’s guilt,life circumstances change,and Augustine of evil issues continue to review and question,Augustine thought commentary constantly receiving new theory,Augustine’s theory followed from skepticism to Manichean,to the Neoplatonism doctrine,to grace on the stage.Then the second chapter explains Augustine that only the ethics of crime,namely the free will voluntarily choose the evil behavior can be called sin.Sin is Adam guilty of ethical crime,Adam is in the exercise of free will chose to betray God sin.Adam made Sin by God’s punishment,the punishment through sexual intercourse from generation to Adam genetic offspring.The third chapter is written to the crime is the cause of evil to make their own decision to choose the ability of using others forced from a voluntarybasis will separate under the circumstances of the crime,analysis Augustine intends to crime and unintentional crime,and human sin to sin or not whether the crime is intentional crime,need to be punished,this is we should burden the moral responsibility.The fourth chapter expounds the method to eliminate Augustine for sin,that is only granted by the grace of God the only through the letter,Hope,love can have happiness,to achieve the best.The last chapter is a little bit of opinion on Augustine’s ethical thoughts of culpability,which are expounded from three aspects of historical value and theoretical defects and Revelation...