Questions tagged [will]
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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 of care will ultimately be interpreted in terms…
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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 drinking (Act 2) can retain volition?
My understanding…
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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 immaterial realm of thought), and it presents itself…
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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 act for an end?"). Some quick searching suggests that…
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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 Categorical Framework, Hacker(2011) states,
"In…
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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 whenever T proves (ϕ∨ψ) for sentences ϕ and ψ of…
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Should a state decide for the good of the population against their will?
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 change.
But the state is a democratic state, and…
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