The ancient Greeks and St. Augustine differ in how they view humans. The ancient Greeks saw humans as essentially good. St. Augustine and others sees humans as born into sin and must be saved by God. Do you think humans are essentially “good” or essentially “bad”? Is human nature good or bad at the core? Explain your response.

Ascientist performs an experiment where she measures the mass of a piece of metal, pours acid onto the metal, washes the metal, and then re-measures the mass of the metal. the scientist repeats the experiment several times, each time increasing the amount of acid used. the dependent variable in the experiment is the: initial mass of the metal final mass of the metal amount of acid used washing the metal