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The notion of human Nature according to the Greek Tradition is undoubtedly comparable to the notion of human Nature according to Saint Augustine, although there are some distinctions. Classical Greek philosophers apparently focused their ideals on logic and saw reason at the heart of the human essence, while St. Augustine saw will as the guiding principle rather than reason. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosophers, all focused on the primary virtues of human nature, namely courage and reason, while Saint Augustine considered faith, love, hope, reason and courage, combining the two ideologies of the Greek concept of human nature. and the biblical teachings of the human person. Saint Augustine agreed with much of the concept of human nature in accordance with the Greek tradition, however, he seemed to have found a sort of gap of insufficiency and incompleteness in which he chose to place the knowledge of Christ . The ideas of the classical Greek philosophers, namely Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and those of the medieval thinker Saint Augustine are interrelated, but they have crucial differences. Many parallels can be found between the concept of human nature according to the Greek tradition and that of Saint Augustine, because Saint Augustine seems to accept the ideologies of the Greek tradition in terms of human essence, but continues to extend them to the realm of nature human. of Christianity and biblical teachings. Socrates' ethics revolved around caring for the soul, possessing self-knowledge, viewing virtue as knowledge, and focusing on the invincible nature of goodness. Essentially, Socrates' principles were based on a knowledge of human nature and its proper functioning, just like Aristotle's. This proper functioning and purpose constitutes middle of paper......ieve in our sensory capacity, no more than Aristotle, for he believed that reason is the true self of every human being. Overall, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were all rationalists who saw logic at the heart of the human essence. Augustine's theory of human nature revolved around the fact that will was our dominant characteristic, rather than reason, as proposed by the classical Greek philosophers Socrates, Aristotle and Plato. According to St. Augustine, the will is our defining characteristic, which makes it exceed our sense of reason because it has the capacity to be good or evil, unlike reason. Saint Augustine also claimed that bad and bad decisions led to ignorance, while ancient Greek thinkers believed that ignorance caused bad decisions to be made. Saint Augustine's theory of human nature is a fusion between Christianity and the philosophical ideals of ancient Greece in terms of human essence..