The same passage argues that moral merit rests on an inborn power that counsels at the threshold of assent, gathering and winnowing good and evil longings.
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Good and evil longings
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"...your merit may be judged, for it garners and winnows good and evil longings. Those reasoners who reason and reach the roots of things..."
"...your merit may be judged for it garners and winnows good and evil longings okay so what we can do our choice our free..."
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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