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| Feb 20, 2023 at 9:27 | comment | added | Nikos M. | @PerttiRuismäki that maybe true, but this is not what Schopenhauer is saying. Schopenhauer is not saying that some things under some circumstances cannot be willed (to which we all agree). But that one can never will to will for all cases of will ever. This total claim is not founded. | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 9:18 | comment | added | Pertti Ruismäki | @NikosM. That would be re-arranging and re-prioritizing your reasons for choosing your actions, revising your action plans. The ultimate goals of survival, reproduction and general well-being cannot be edited. | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 8:55 | comment | added | Nikos M. | @PerttiRuismäki one can argue a posteriori that "being able to re-arrange and re-prioritize existing reasons" thus "choosing what to will" happens in practice. So again your claim is not founded | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 8:45 | comment | added | Pertti Ruismäki | @NikosM. The argument is a posteriori. Our inability to choose what we will is an irrefutable fact. Our ability to choose what we do is another irrefutable fact. Nothing is assumed here. To challenge the former you would have to establish the ability to choose what we will and that would lead to infinite regress. To challenge the latter you would have to establish the identity of the entity that chooses our actions instead of ourselves. | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 6:42 | comment | added | Nikos M. | @PerttiRuismäki answer argues how will to will can happen and how what you call definitions or preferences are question -begging assumptions | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 5:34 | comment | added | Pertti Ruismäki | Besides, what to will is not among what to do by definition, not by assumption. Willing is mental, doing is physical. Willing is theory, doing is practice. Willing is personal, doing is observable by others. | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 5:28 | comment | added | Pertti Ruismäki | Choosing what to will means the same as choosing your preferences. But you cannot do that, because you must have preferences in order to choose anything. And those preferences you must have chosen by earlier preferences and so on. The infinite regress is here. Therefore you cannot choose what to will. | |
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| Feb 18, 2023 at 13:24 | comment | added | Nikos M. | @ScottRowe that counts as even better answer than mine :) | |
| Feb 18, 2023 at 12:57 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | "If you don't make up your mind, you can't change it." (I think that's attributed to Pogo) | |
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| Feb 18, 2023 at 10:02 | history | answered | Nikos M. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |