When Saint Augustine writes in Confessions: “The evil in me was foul, but I loved it” (p. 47), and also “I loved evil even though it served no purpose” (p. 51), what does he mean by this contradictory admission? How does he come to understand his own "greedy love of doing wrong"?

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explanation:

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

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