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I'm going to go back to where I left off last time, which was in book eight,

the book of many conversions.

And after describing how edified he was and other people were by the series of conversions that have been spoken of in book A, he pauses to meditate on why he can't pull this

off or hasn't been able to pull it off very well up until this point.

And he introduces a position he's very famous for, which is the problem of the divided will.

By the way, not two different wills, like the Manichaeans, but a single will divided.

And one way to, and I will read the passage, one way to portray the division is between freedom of choice, that is up or down, yes or no, in a choice,

and freedom at this level, being willing to, and being able to sustain that aspect of the will, and Augustine's position, which

gets ever more complicated even after the confessions when he returns to it in different

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