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Ideas for 'Monadology', 'Recent Work on Consciousness' and 'Leviathan'

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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 1. Acting on Desires

2362	The will is just the last appetite before action [Hobbes]
	Full Idea: In deliberation, the last appetite or aversion immediately adhering to the action, or to the omission thereof, is that we call the Will.
	From: Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], 1.06)
	A reaction: I share his caution about 'the will', but his observation strikes me as inaccurate. When I drink, my 'will' is not my thirst. I take the will to be a feature of my reason. I gave my thirst permission to indulge itself. The will is practical reason?

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

2363	Reason is usually general, but deliberation is of particulars [Hobbes]
	Full Idea: Reasoning is in general words, but deliberation for the most part is of particulars.
	From: Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], 1.06)