The youthful stealing of pears from a tree seems a relatively minor lapse as moral failures go

1. The youthful stealing of pears from a tree seems a relatively minor lapse as moral failures go, but it later served as an incident of great remorse for Augustine. What did he see this incident as revealing about himself and about human nature in general? Do you agree? Why or why not?
2. What are the determinist, compatibilist, and libertarian views on the freedom of the will? Which position is Augustine usually interpreted as holding? Is freedom necessary for moral responsibility? Which position do you think makes the most sense, and why?
3. Does Augustine regard time as always having existed or as something created by God? How does Augustine understand God’s relationship to time? In Augustine’s view, are the past, present, and future all equally present to God and all equally real? Does this mean that every created thing—human beings included—has a temporal extension as well as a three-dimensional spatial extension, i.e., that from the divine perspective we all are statically existing four-dimensional objects? Do you think this has any relevance to the question of the freedom of the will?