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Taking examples from Book III of Augustine's Confessions, this paper discusses how Augustine outlines the three basic types of lust; visual, sensory and domineering. The paper also examines Augustine's own experiences with these particular lusts and how he overcame them. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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hell before attaining salvation. This man would have had a trying youth, which likely as not included some kind of chemical abuse. And once that man found a mentor, his
life would turn around into Gods service. Such was the story of St. Augustine. During his early years, went through trials that
would probably have broken a lesser man. He was able to overcome many of his materialistic wants and needs, however, which is described in his Confessions, a lengthy book that
described his own situations. Within Confessions, he describes, to great detail, the three forms of lust that can undermine a mans will. The three forms include lust for domination, in
which the tendency and demands to rule can crush anothers will; the lust of the eyes, which deals both with regarding something in a sexual sense and with a sense
of want, and lust of the senses, in which the five sense of taste, smell, sight, hearing and touch are overwhelmed with sensuality. Because man is man, and man is
in human form, St. Augustine believes, the battle with life is a constant struggle to overcome any one of the three lusts mentioned above.
Augustine, himself, mentions his own difficulties in struggling to overcome his own lustful desires in Book III of Confessions. During this period, he describes his student days
in Carthage, and although those days end with the discovery of Cicero and his ultimate interest in philosophy, it also talks about a time during which he was drunk on
sensuality and physical needs. In short, Book III describes, very vividly, the picture of a man who sowed his wild oats before it was time to don the mantle of
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