
HoP 114 - Sarah Byers on Augustine's Ethics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Stoic Model of the Motivational Impression in Augustine
In a Hobbesian universe, I'm culpable or praiseworthy from the point that I give a sense. And at that point, the only thing that would prevent me from eating the cookie would be some kind of external obstacle. So you've got impression, ascent and impulse. How far does Augustine then follow the Stoics on this? Does he adopt the same basic tripartite structure when he's analyzing how human action works? Yes, he certainly does.
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