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Single Idea 1854

[from 'Quaestiones Disputatae de Malo' by Thomas Aquinas, in 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will ]

Full Idea

We are forced to admit that, in any will that is not always willing, the very first movement to will must come from outside, stimulating the will to start willing.

Gist of Idea

We must admit that when the will is not willing something, the first movement to will must come from outside the will

Source

Thomas Aquinas (Quaestiones Disputatae de Malo [1271], Q6.reply)

Book Reference

Aquinas,Thomas: 'Selected Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. McDermott,Timothy [OUP 1993], p.178


A Reaction

cf Nietzsche