I guess he wanted to say that human's desire is very strong.Basically, most people can distinguish between what they should do and shouldn't. However, even though people know that, people can't stop following their desire. People don't do that on purpose. Actually, Saint Augustine said "fail to." It means that the people do that kind of compulsively.
For example, when a person drinks and he is supposed to wake up early next day, someone else says, "Let's go to the next bar!" The person knows what he should do, yet, he probably goes to the next bar. I can say that 60 percent of people do this because of people's strong desire.
I have a lot of experiences which are similar to what Saint Augustine said, for instance, when my friends invite me to go to drinking, I always accept it. Some good invitation, especially going drinking, drive me crazy.
As a result, it's easy to consider what I should do, I think. However, judging and doing what we should do are totally different from just considering.
Friday, October 1, 2010
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