these emotions in His human soul.”10 Augustine’s distinction between good and corrupt concupiscence lies in the struggle between desires of the spirit and desires of the flesh. Desires of the spirit can be concupiscentia bona or concupiscentia naturalis. Concupiscentia bona is “a concupiscence of the spirit against the flesh, and a concupiscence of wisdom.”11 When a person desires the things of the spirit, those things that come from or point to God, he or she is embracing the purpose of human existence.
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