Sublime

We’re talking about what psychologists today would describe as the “adaptive unconscious.” Timothy Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has described this in his important book Strangers to Ourselves (a very Augustinian title!). Over the past twenty years psychology has come to appreciate the overwhelming influence of “nonconscious

“the three bounds”: bounded rationality, bounded willpower, and bounded self-interest.

Man is not a combination of an impersonal rational thinker and a personal will.