Human Nature
What development in the concept of human nature & the place of the human being occurred during this time period? Do you think it is harmful or helpful to think of human nature as sinful? Do you think it is harmful or helpful to think of the material world and sensible human processes as being almost furthest away from the Good / the One / God (in Plato / Plotinus / Augustine)? In other words, do you think that physical pleasures and material drives are sinful & evil?