Single Idea 7135

[catalogued under 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will]

Full Idea

It is our feeling of having more force that we call 'freedom of will', the consciousness of our force compelling in relation to a force that is compelled.

Gist of Idea

'Freedom of will' is the feeling of having a dominating force

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 34[250])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.16


A Reaction

I don't agree. That describes well how we experience the will, and develop the concept of a will, but the idea that the will is 'free' seems to me to be totally theoretical (and false), and doesn't derive from experience at all.