Part one of term paper
? In Saint Augustine's Confessions, the quote "…the world is drunk with the invisible wine of its own perverted, earthbound will" masterfully describes the broadest underlying concept of human nature as the will to sin. However, Augustine develops this concept much deeper, expanding a definition that can be compared to that of Thucydides i ...

Part two of term paper
... known to be a "bad" thing, Thucydides describes many accounts of sin being done for some self-fulfillment purpose. He argues this by saying "Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils," in reference to the war (Thucydides 243). Basically, he states that humans will always be compelled to sin (breaking laws, harming others, etc.) because of the feeling that something can be gained out of it. Thucydides embellishes this concept even m ...