Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will | The Causes of Wrongdoing | Philosophy Core Concepts

This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Augustine of Hippo's short work, On Free Choice of the Will, book 1, specifically on his discussion of what the source of the wrongness of wrongdoing is. Augustine and his student, Evodius discuss whether it is violation of the law or other social norms, passion (libido), desire, or fear, or - as it ultimately turns out to be - the human will.

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[NickClimbsHills]

You should do a series on Malebranche! :)

[thegreatsummoner]

Thank you for the upload, the video cleared some things up for me but I’m still confused about a few things. So what makes something evil is a defective will that desires something temporal and out of our control when it ought to have been focused on the eternal instead? Wouldn’t that apply equally to murder and health so would that mean there’s degrees of defect? Or is health always prudent unless vanity is the object desired, despite the ability for it to be lost regardless of our will?

[ingridlinbohm]

How does Saint Augustine address the problem of addicts