The phrase "act of willing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the concept of making a choice or decision, particularly in philosophical or psychological discussions.
Example: "The act of willing is essential for understanding human agency and decision-making processes."
Alternatives: "exercise of will" or "act of choice".
For this reason, my relationship to (and hence the nature of) the object is transformed by my choice of it; it is transformed by my act of willing, because obtaining the willed object is then the source of my self-satisfaction (PE 154).
It would have taken an act of willing denial to miss the fact that, in an age where the guitar hero has become something of a rarity, a thirty-one-year-old woman was shredding.
Then at the rear of the crowd, came a man's voice, calling loudly: "What are you doing here?" People kept their faces averted, locked in the act of willing the plane to land.
Sometimes it is treated as the act of willing, which, along with thinking, is one of the two major activities of mind or understanding; and sometimes purposiveness is regarded as the very essence of mentality.
It follows directly that "in respect of the act of willing, a Man is not free" (E1-4 II.xxi.23: 245).
As some scholars put it, it is the act of willing which counts as a correct action (Inwood, 2005 [3]; cf. Letter 81.10 13).
"At the beginning it's an act of will, willing yourself not to move or scratch or fiddle.
The idea expressed here is that ultimately all obligations are present because of efficacious acts of the divine will, in particular, acts of willing that those obligations be in force.
For example, he argues that by 'self-determination' the libertarian must mean either that one's actions including one's acts of willing are preceded by an act of free will or that one's acts of will lack sufficient causes.
Talking about the will is merely shorthand for referring to acts of willing or desiring.
Or is he interested in exploring the phenomenology of decision-making and self-improvement, and this leads him to describe certain mental acts as acts of willing (velle)?
