Questions tagged [will]
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There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Are these words of Shakespeare,inspired by Marcus Aurelius, true?
This question is not about ethics. It is about our perceptions of positive and negative value. I take the original meaning of the great emperor to be that we have control only of our own thinking, and ...
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Is there a difference between will and free will?
In Leviathan, Hobbes argues that it is not the will that is free but that which exercises the will. So is there only will, exercised by beings who may or may not be free?
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Would an extremely unified being be able to issue more than one particular command?
Suppose that there is an actus purus, a being that is entirely active, impassible (nothing happens to this being), and which has no proper parts (its only part is itself entirely), not even abstract ...
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Is disjunction pointless in intuitionistic logic?
Sec. 5.3 of the SEP article on constructive and intuitionistic set theories makes note of a property meant for theories that compromise on the LEM:
A theory T has the disjunction property (DP) if ...
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Why does Schopenhauerian "Will" appear as the Representation(s) that it does?
I believe that Schopenhauer is the closest to describing true reality - at least as far as I have currently developed my thoughts. But if reality-in-itself is pure Will (or what you might call an ...
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How does the phenomenal will feature in Heidegger?
How does 'phenomenal will' feature in Heidegger? I mean the sense that you are initiating actions. I'm asking because I'm unsure whether this can be manifest except in the present
the dimensionality ...
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Should a state decide for the good of the population against their will? [closed]
Here is a hypothetical situation.
There is a project only the state can handle. This project, if it is made, will have a positive impact for everyone. If it is not made, the current situation will not ...
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What is the difference between "actus elicitus" and "actus imperatus"?
I have encountered the distinction between actus elicitus and actus imperatus, in the context of the will, in St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica I-II q. 1 a. 1 ("Whether it belongs to man to ...
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Can a decision be something other than voluntary or involuntary?
I am attempting to construct an argument against free will.
An early objection has been raised, to the very first premise:
1. Decisions may be either voluntary or involuntary.
In Human Nature: the ...
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Decision and volition: Can an act ever be voluntary in the absence of a decision to perform it?
Note: 'Act' here = 'A thing done'.
Imagine two acts:
The act of deciding to drink.
The act of drinking.
Suppose the decision to drink (Act 1) is involuntary.
Is there any mechanism by which ...
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