Sentence examples for our volition from inspiring English sources

Once a choice is made, our minds tend to rewrite history in a way that flatters our volition, a fact magicians have exploited for centuries.

For instance, in Groundwork I, he says that he takes himself to have argued that "the objectives we may have in acting, and also our actions' effects considered as ends and what motivates our volition, can give to actions no unconditional or moral worth…[this] can be found nowhere but in the principle of the will, irrespective of the ends that can be brought about by such action" (4: 400).

I certainly don't want to denigrate the notion that our volition accounts for everything -- but then again, who the hell are we kidding?

"It suggests consideration of an action outside of our volition, and places the onus squarely on the expected," a matter Obama clearly addressed during his campaign.

It almost feels to us as if it is beyond our volition -- like we didn't choose the subject, that it chose us.

These drugs, as an essential function of their painkilling mechanism, throttle the autonomic nervous system, those functions that happen without our volition, like breathing and heart rate, and bowel movements.

If so, how can our volitions be other than completely determined?

(iv) It is difficult, then, to reconcile the notions of moral responsibility with the view that our volitions are completely determined.

Locke's view, then, seems to be that our volitions are caused (though not, perhaps, deterministically, i.e., in a way that is fixed by initial conditions and the laws of nature) by uneasinesses.

Another distinctive passion Descartes describes is generosity [generosité], which produces a kind of self-directed wonder, or esteem, grounded in our recognition "that nothing really belongs to us other than the free disposition of our volitions," along with sensing "in ourselves at the same time a firm and constant resolution to use them well" (AT XI 446, slightly altered from CSM I 384).

Second and noteworthy in that it anticipates both Malebranche and Hume if we restrict ourselves to what we observe, we never experience a causal connection but only temporal succession between our volitions at one moment and our body's actions the next.