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Single Idea 8230
[filed under theme 20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act
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Full Idea
Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop.
Gist of Idea
Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop
Source
Anon (Cent) (Centring [c.500 BCE], 64)
Book Ref
'Zen Flesh, Zen Bones', ed/tr. Reps,Paul [Penguin 1971], p.159
A Reaction
Nice. You might train your own will like a dog in this way. It is a counterexample to the simplistic idea that all you need is a belief and a desire, and you have got an action. But (pace Searle, Ideas 3817 + 3818) this does not prove free will.
Related Ideas
Idea 3817
Free will is most obvious when we choose between several reasons for an action [Searle]
Idea 3818
We freely decide whether to make a reason for action effective [Searle]
The
33 ideas
with the same theme
[mental initiation of an action]:
2171
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The 'will' doesn't exist; there is just conclusion, then action
[Homer, by Williams,B]
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8230
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Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop
[Anon (Cent)]
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23316
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For Plato and Aristotle there is no will; there is only rational desire for what is seen as good
[Plato, by Frede,M]
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23320
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Choice is not explained by the will, but by the operation of reason when it judges what is good
[Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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23323
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Earlier Stoics speak of assent, but not of choice, let alone of a will
[Stoic school, by Frede,M]
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22118
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Augustine created the modern concept of the will
[Augustine, by Matthews]
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1846
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The will can only want what it thinks is good
[Aquinas]
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1847
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The will must aim at happiness, but can choose the means
[Aquinas]
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1857
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We don't have to will even perfect good, because we can choose not to think of it
[Aquinas]
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23180
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The will is the rational appetite
[Aquinas]
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4309
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Spinoza argues that in reality the will and the intellect are 'one and the same'
[Spinoza, by Cottingham]
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4838
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Claiming that actions depend on the will is meaningless; no one knows what the will is
[Spinoza]
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12946
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The idea of the will includes the understanding
[Leibniz]
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19331
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Will is an inclination to pursue something good
[Leibniz]
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2220
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Only experience teaches us about our wills
[Hume]
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6183
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Can pure reason determine the will, or are empirical conditions relevant?
[Kant]
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6191
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The will is the faculty of purposes, which guide desires according to principles
[Kant]
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23233
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The will is awareness of one of our inner natural forces
[Fichte]
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22769
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The concept of the will is the free will which wills its freedom
[Hegel]
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21924
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As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss
[Schopenhauer]
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7187
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Schopenhauer was caught in Christian ideals, because he didn't deify his 'will'
[Nietzsche on Schopenhauer]
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21365
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Only the will is thing-in-itself, seen both in blind nature and in human action
[Schopenhauer]
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3772
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The will, in the beginning, is entirely produced by desire
[Mill]
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18313
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The big error is to think the will is a faculty producing effects; in fact, it is just a word
[Nietzsche]
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24105
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Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings
[Nietzsche]
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4554
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The concept of the 'will' is just a false simplification by our understanding
[Nietzsche]
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18299
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The will is constantly frustrated by the past
[Nietzsche]
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9265
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The will is the effective desire which actually leads to an action
[Frankfurt]
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23336
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There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good
[Frede,M]
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7861
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Libet says the processes initiated in the cortex can still be consciously changed
[Libet, by Papineau]
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6660
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Libet found conscious choice 0.2 secs before movement, well after unconscious 'readiness potential'
[Libet, by Lowe]
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6661
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Libet gives empirical support for the will, as a kind of 'executive' mental operation
[Lowe]
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23517
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Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within
[Seth]
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