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  • 9 - Weakness, Ignorance, and Pride

  • Katherine Chambers, University of New England, Australia
  • Book:
    Augustine on the Nature of Virtue and Sin
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    23 November 2023, pp 309-344

  • Summary

    This chapter establishes that Augustine held that the sins of Christians were venial sins and that these sins were always committed through weakness or ignorance, with the result that Christians remained virtuous while they committed these sins. In contrast, the sins of non-Christians were always damnable sins and these were committed through pride. Through a study of Augustine’s account of the theft of the pears, and of Adam and Eve’s Fall, this chapter shows that Augustine thought that sinning through pride could take two different forms, and that this supported his view that anti-social, other-harming actions (like theft or murder) were not inevitable in the earthly city.