The Conditions of Will
So I offer you such freedom of the will as exists for some people, some of the time, occasionally leading them to succeed when others fail; maybe moving them to a higher level of consciousness, above their animal ways, to truly human behavior. It’s not a total kind of freedom, as René Descartes describes in Passions of the Soul (1649), where he wri
... See moreIn classical philosophy—at least the Aristotelian tradition—the will and the intellect are not opposed to each other but work in conjunction. The intellect informs the will and helps direct actions; actions then influence the intellect’s ability to grasp the truth.