Exploration of Preliminary Passions and Emotional Regulation in Stoicism and Early Christian Thought

This lecture was given on March 28th, 2019 at the University of Toronto.

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Event Description:

Human beings naturally have the power of free choice, but mental habits can cause us to choose in determined ways. So how can we break out of deep bad habits to form new and better ones? “Divine grace” is the answer given by Augustine and the authors of the Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. Which of these authors has the most persuasive theory about the relation of grace to human free will?