“对树的罪”和“对女人的罪”——奥古斯丁原罪观中的两个概念

Two Concepts of Augustine's Original Sin

本文从奥古斯丁在《上帝之城》卷十四的第10章中"对区分善恶之树的罪"和"对女人的罪"的区分出发,讨论了他对原罪的两种理解。一方面,奥古斯丁认为初人偷吃禁果是因为高傲,这是一切罪的开端;另一方面,又认为堕落之后便出现了淫欲之罪,这成了堕落之后一切罪的统称。二者都是对原罪的理解:前者是人之罪的哲学根源,后者是人之罪的现世表露。

This paper distinguishes the'sin related to the tree of knowledge'from the 'sin of women' in Chapter 10 of Volume 14 in The City of God by Augustine,and analyzes his two concepts of sin.On the one hand,Augustine held that the eating of the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge by Adam and Eve originated from arrogance,which was the beginning of all sins; on the other hand,he thought that the first degeneration led to the sin of lust,a general term for all sins.The first interpretation is about the philosophical origin of the sins of humans; the latter is about the worldly expression of the sins of humans.