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Craving is determined by the definitely given thing it seeks, just as a movement is set by the goal toward which it moves. For, as Augustine writes, love is "a kind of motion, and all motion is toward something. Our craving aims at a world we know; it does not discover anything new. The thing we know and desire is a "good" bonumotherwise we would not seek it for its own sake. All the goods we desire in our questing love are independent objects, unrelated to other objects. Each of them represents nothing but its isolated goodness. The distinctive trait of this good that we desire is that we do not have it. Once we have the object our desire ends, unless we are threatened with its loss. In that case the desire to have appetitus habendi turns into a fear of losing Love and Saint Augustine amittendi. As a quest for the particular good rather than for things at random, desire is a combination of "aiming at" and "referring Love and Saint Augustine to. It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy beatum esse velleour notion of happiness guides us in determining the respective goods that then became objects of our desires. Craving, or love, is a human being's possibility of gaining possession of the good that will make him happy, that is, of gaining possession of what is most his own. This love can turn into fear: "None will doubt that the only causes of fear are either loss of what we love and have gained, or failure to gain what we love and [B] have hoped for. As craving seeks some good, fear dreads some evil malumand "he who fears something must necessarily shun it. So long as we desire temporal things, we are constantly under this threat, and our fear of losing always corresponds to our desire to have. Temporal goods originate and perish independently of man, who is tied to them by his desire. Constantly bound by craving and fear to a future full of uncertainties, we strip each present moment of its calm, its intrinsic import, which we are unable to enjoy. And so, the future destroys the present. Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire. The present is not Love and Saint Augustine by the future as such although this, too, is possible with Augustine, as we shall see belowbut by certain events which we hope for or fear from the future, and which we accordingly crave and Love and Saint Augustine, or shun and avoid. Happiness beatitudo consists in possession, in having and holding habere et tenere our good, and even more in being sure of not losing it. Sorrow tristitia consists in having lost our good and in enduring this loss. However, for Augustine the happiness of having is not contrasted by sorrow but by fear of losing. The trouble with human happiness is that it is constantly beset by fear. It is not the lack Love and Saint Augustine possessing but the safety of possession that is at stake. This enormous Love and Saint Augustine of security—that nothing subject to loss can ever become an object of possession—is due to the condition of man and not to the objects he desires. Good and evil are good and bad for one who wants to live happily. Although all men want to live happily, each one means and seeks something else by happiness, Love and Saint Augustine by the goods which constitute it. Hence the questions arise: what is good? Each one understands something different by them. However, all Love and Saint Augustine agreed on one point, namely, wanting to live. Thus the happy life beata vita is actually life itself. And it also follows that a life in constant peril of death is no true Love and Saint Augustine, because Love and Saint Augustine is continually threatened by the loss of what it is, and is even certain to lose it some day. The happy life is the life we cannot lose. Life on earth is a living death, mors vitalisor vita mortalis. It is altogether determined by death; Love and Saint Augustine it is more properly called death. For the constant fear that rules it prevents living, unless one equates being alive with being afraid. This basic fear guides all our fears of specific evils. By putting an end to life, death is at the same time Love and Saint Augustine cause of the constant worry of life about itself—the endless concern about its transient happiness—and about life Love and Saint Augustine death. But, as Augustine writes, "what if death itself cuts off and puts an end to all worries along with all feeling? Augustine Love and Saint Augustine no answer other than to summon up the "authority of the Christian faith" with its claim that life is immortal. Do not all men agree that they want to live? Only where there is no death, and hence no future, can men live "without the anguish of worry. Hence, their fear teaches them the true nature of life. Thus the object of fear comes to be fear itself. Even if we should assume that there is nothing to fear, that death is no evil, the fact of fear that all living things shun death remains. Hence, "either the evil we fear exists, or evil is the very fact of fear. This fearlessness is what love seeks. Love as craving Love and Saint Augustine is determined by its goal, and this goal is freedom from fear metu carere. Since life in its approach to death is constantly "diminished" and thus keeps losing itself, it is the experience of loss that must guide the determination of love's adequate [B] object the amandum. Thus the good of love is established: it is "what you cannot lose against your will. First, the good is the object of craving, that is, something useful that man can find in the world and hope to Love and Saint Augustine. In the second context, the good is defined by fear of death, that is, by life's fear of its own destruction. All other accidents of life, which man does not have in his hand, are traced back to his lack of power over life itself. As this utmost evil, death comes to the living from the outside and they shun it, while with such terms as vita mortalis men are viewed as mortals to begin with. Life and death belong together. The consciousness of this impotence, in which life is regarded as inherently mortal, contradicts the definition of love as craving because craving, in line with its meaning as a quest, makes us strive for something that can be achieved, though we may fail to achieve it. Only when death is regarded as the utmost evil, meeting life from the outside, is the unity of the argument love as craving preserved. The reason for this incongruity lies in Augustine's terminology, which he took over from the tradition of Greek philosophy even when he wished to express experiences that were quite alien to it. This is especially true of the appetitus reflections, which can be traced back to Aristotle via Plotinus. Aristotle defined death as the "evil most to be feared" without, however, insisting on this fear for his understanding of man. Yet it is precisely in the twofold interpretation of death that the twin rudiments of this whole set of problems become manifest. For the present we can make this point: life characterized by death craves something that, in principle, it cannot obtain, and pursues it as though it were at its disposal. Every good and every evil lie ahead. Every present moment is governed by this imminence. Human life is always "not yet. Thus the future in which man lives Love and Saint Augustine always the expected future, fully determined by his present longings or fears. The future is by no means unknown since it is nothing but the threatening or fulfilling "not yet" of the present. However, every fulfillment is only apparent because at the end looms death, the radical loss. This means that the future, the "not Love and Saint Augustine of the present, is what we must always fear. To the present, the future can only be menacing. Only a present without a future is immutable and utterly unthreatened. In such a present lies the calm of possession. This possession is life itself. For all goods exist for life alone, to protect it from its loss, from death. This present without a future—which no longer knows particular goods but is itself the absolute good summum bonum —is eternity. Eternity is what "you cannot lose against your will. In this frustration love turns about and its object becomes a negation, so that nothing is to be desired except freedom from fear. Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no Love and Saint Augustine be shaken by events expected of the future. The good, which can be understood only as a correlative to love defined as craving and which is unobtainable for mortal life, is projected into an absolute present commencing after death. Even though Love and Saint Augustine present becomes an absolute future for mortal life, it is still being craved and thus it lies Love and Saint Augustine just like any other good expected in the future. The sole exception to this is the life whose expectations aim at the absolute future and can no longer be disappointed. However, as the object of craving becomes pure calm and the pure absence of fear, the good retains its negativity and lack of content. These qualities have arisen from the senselessness of craving for a life seen essentially from the viewpoint of death. For this kind of life, the will to possess and the will Love and Saint Augustine dispose of something have become simply absurd. There can be no doubt that death, and not just fear of death, was the most crucial experience in Augustine's life. After "the loss of life of the dying" followed "the death of the living. Still, according to Augustine, the decisive motive for his conversion to Christianity was the "fear of death," for nothing else had so strongly recalled him from "carnal pleasures. The more Christian Augustine grew in the course of a long life, the more Pauline he became. Fearless possession can be achieved only under the conditions of timelessness, equated by both Augustine and Plotinus with eternity. Thus, Augustine proceeds to strip the world and all temporal things of their value and to make them relative. All worldly goods are changeable mutabilia. Since they will not last, they do not really exist. They cannot be relied upon. Plotinus writes:. For what is does not differ from what always is, just as a philosopher does not differ from a true philosopher We add to "what is" the word "always" and to "always" the word "being", and thus we speak of "everlasting being". This means: What always is, that is truly. But even if things should last, human life does not.