Sentence examples for object of volition from inspiring English sources

Thus there is coherence between the object of volition and the object of perception.

Arnauld follows Aquinas in saying that the will is not free with regard to two objects, first, happiness, apprehended as the ultimate object of volition, and, second, God, seen face to face by the blessed in heaven.

From primitive appetites which involve a precursor self that affirms itself through its desires we arrive at a variety of types of actions and of objects of volition and different relations between the self and the objects.

Kant defines autonomy principally as "the property of the will by which it is a law to itself (independently of any property of the objects of volition)" (G 4 440).

In Kant's famous dictum, "Autonomy of the will is the property the will has of being a law unto itself (independently of every property belonging to the objects of volition)" (Kant 1785, 108).

The worry here is that Locke holds that the objects of volition are actions or forbearances, so the man would need to be described as willing to forbear from falling.

In the third book he maintains that, even though the intellect deliberates about the objects of volition and represents them to the will, it is the will which has the ultimate power to suspend an act of volition, i.e., not to want a particular object.

Indeed, since God could not help but create this Universe (as we shall see in Section 4.2), everything which is is necessary and so is a necessary object of God's volition.

The efficient cause of volition can only be the object presented to the will by the intellect.

Moral worth depends "on the principle of volition in accordance with which, irrespective of all objects of the faculty of desire, the action has been performed" [ 17].

Taking less than half his previous dose of Levodopa, Stuart has regained essential forms of volition.