#566: Desires and Persons

How we imagine ourselves matters for change.

In my long (mostly neglected) essay on TikTok and Augustine, I took up a question that I think is among the most difficult in moral theology: how can we transform our desires, when desires are inherently self-reinforcing and self-perpetuating? The great crisis of Romans 7 is one in which the knowledge of the good comes apart from the desire for that goo…