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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

4554	The concept of the 'will' is just a false simplification by our understanding [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: There is no such thing as 'will'; it is only a simplifying conception of understanding, as is 'matter'.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §671)
	A reaction: Nietzsche shares this view with British philosophers such as Hobbes and Bernard Williams. So what is the ontological status of the 'will to power'?

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / b. Volitionism

4552	There is no such things a pure 'willing' on its own; the aim must always be part of it [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: There is no such thing as 'willing', but only willing something: one must not remove the aim from the total condition - as epistemologists do. 'Willing' as they understand it is as little a reality as 'thinking': it is a pure fiction.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §668)
	A reaction: This is parallel to the common modern assertion that emotions also have intentional content, and cannot be understood as having a 'pure' identity.