502 Persuasion by Jane Austen | My Last Book with Stephen Dobranski
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The Power of Persuasion
When God gave humans free will, he was expressing this respect for personal autonomy and the dignity of human agency. It's better morally for people to choose for themselves what to do rather than to have others choose it for them. Lady Russell persuades based on good sound reasons and adopts the choice but they turn out to be wrong. We don't blame Satan for persuading or God for letting it happen. We blame Eve. Maybe that was how Jane looked back at her own decisions and the course that her life took.
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