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How can someone want to act and still hold back? Augustine answers with an account of competing habits and desires within one person.
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Guided course · Module 6 · Lesson 28
Time, will and the inward turn
Augustine examines a divided will and asks where the time we measure could be. Habit, memory, attention and expectation shape his answers; how far can an inward inquiry explain what it finds?