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'Quaestiones Disputatae de Malo', 'Grundlagen (Foundations of Theory of Manifolds)' and 'The World as Will and Idea'
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20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 4. Action as Movement
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Every true act of will is also at once and without exception a movement of the body [Schopenhauer]
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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act
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The will can only want what it thinks is good [Aquinas]
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Schopenhauer was caught in Christian ideals, because he didn't deify his 'will' [Nietzsche on Schopenhauer]
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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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The will must aim at happiness, but can choose the means [Aquinas]
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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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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
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If we were essentially intellect rather than will, our moral worth would depend on imagined motives [Schopenhauer]
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