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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

7157	We think each thought causes the next, unaware of the hidden struggle beneath [Nietzsche]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

7148	The 'I' is a conceptual synthesis, not the governor of our being [Nietzsche]

7138	The 'I' is a fiction used to make the world of becoming 'knowable' [Nietzsche]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will

1855	If we saw something as totally and utterly good, we would be compelled to will it [Aquinas]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will

1861	The will is not compelled to move, even if pleasant things are set before it [Aquinas]

1862	However habituated you are, given time to ponder you can go against a habit [Aquinas]

1853	Because the will moves by examining alternatives, it doesn't compel itself to will [Aquinas]

1856	Nothing can be willed except what is good, but good is very varied, and so choices are unpredictable [Aquinas]

1849	Since will is a reasoning power, it can entertain opposites, so it is not compelled to embrace one of them [Aquinas]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

1854	We must admit that when the will is not willing something, the first movement to will must come from outside the will [Aquinas]

7135	'Freedom of will' is the feeling of having a dominating force [Nietzsche]