This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker. This Core Concept video focuses on Augustine of Hippo's work, the Confessions, specifically on his self-examination as he recalls the incident of the Pear Tree in book 2.
This leads Augustine to reflect upon the nature of human motivation -- particularly the motivations that explain wrong or evil actions and choices. In trying to get to the roots of the Pear Tree incident, he finds that his action ultimately had to be explained by saying that he desired evil -- which is really a nothing or nullity.
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