
HoP 114 - Sarah Byers on Augustine's Ethics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Are You Having Warring Motivations?
The Stoics weren't committed to the view that every time you assent to a moral proposition, you've made a decision that's going to last for the rest of your life. And I suppose that if you had warring motivations, you could also kind of waver back and forth at the level of ascent. So when someone's experienced an actual motivating impression towards doing some action, they are saying to themselves, do it, go for it. But none of that is really a motivation for the Stoics or for Augustine.
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