Augustines Confessions

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enjoyment of the sin of the crime was indeed unlawful. He thinks of why couldn’t he have received enjoyment by committing a more lawful act. In Augustines Confessions (II,6) He states:
“ O rottenness! O monstrous life and deepest
death! Could a thing give pleasure which
could not be done lawfully, and which was
done for no other reason because it was
unlawful?”
This shows that Augustine is starting to think about his actions. At the time of the act he was thinking of how much his actions pleased him. In book six of his confessions Augustine starts to think about the actions he had committed and how they were unlawful, not only in society but also in the world that God
created. However as Augustine starts to show remorse for his sins it does not change the fact that he stole the fruit from the tree for the pleasure of sin.
According to Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics, a self indulgent person is led on by his own choice, since he ...

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such, I remember, my state
of mind at the time. Alone I would have never
done it.”
This shows how if he were alone, Augustine would never acted the way he did at the time of the crime. This brings into account what today’s society calls “peer preasure.” At the time of the incident, Augustine wanted to impress or be close with his peers. He states in (II,8)
“If I had merely liked the pears that I
stole, and merely wished to eat them, I
could have done so by myself, were doing
that wrong deed enough to lead me to my
pleasure. Nor would I have needed to arouse
the itch of my desires by rubbing together of
guilty minds? ...

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