2.  What did Augustine learn from the Platonists that helped him solve the "problem of evil" differently than the Manichees had done?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3.  For Augustine, how is the God of Christianity fundamentally different from the God of the Platonists?
 
 
 
 
 
 
  4.  What is the significance of the incident of the stolen pears?  What, for Augustine, did it imply about the "natural" moral state of man and his relationship to God?
 
 
 
 
 
 
  5.  What is the purpose of human life, according to Augustine?  What feature(s) of human experience most clearly indicate this, if only in a negative way?