For example, consider an agent who succumbs to contrary inclination of exactly the type expected when the time comes to act on a truly stupid resolution.
The weak-willed agent abandons a resolution because of a contrary inclination of exactly the type which the resolution was expressly designed to defeat.
But another problem suggests itself: an agent who was a 'natural saint,' always and effortlessly choosing the good with no contrary inclination, would not have freedom of will among his virtues.
Second, says Holton, we need to attend to an important subclass of our intentions to do something at a future time, namely contrary-inclination-defeating intentions, or, as he later terms them (Holton 2003), resolutions.
He put the hair's natural movement and shine first, refusing to force it into behaving contrary to natural inclinations.
On the contrary, the backward inclination depresses the downwash, while enlarges the upwash.
The intellective soul can exist without the body, but it is not created to exist without it, as it has, on the contrary, a natural inclination to be united with it.
Contrary to the hardwired inclinations that tempt me to coddle and meddle, I'm learning to stay out of their way and let them live their lives as the adults they've become.
Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, who has led the charge on the Obama administration's handling of the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, said the speaker had urged him to move slowly and methodically — contrary, he acknowledged, to his inclinations.
