Moreover, passions proper need not arise only by way of completely external causes; they can arise through volitions, when the volition produces a bodily effect, as when the intellect's raising something for consideration under a universal prompts a particular appearance in the imagination (see de Veritate q.26).
I'd been promoting a novel non-stop for four months, advancing through my schedule without volition, feeling more and more like the graphical lozenge on a media player's progress bar.
Scotus's position, as understood by Wodeham, states that while an external act can only be good if it falls under the control of the will (cf. Adams and Wood 1981, 9), the external and indirectly controlled act can nevertheless contribute an additional moral goodness beyond the moral value accrued through the act of volition.
Finally, Hume asks why God does not act through particular volitions to prevent specific catastrophes and disasters (e.g., why not ensure there is no storm blowing when a fleet is out at sea)? (D,11.8/206) In all these cases, Hume grants, there may "be good reasons, why providence interposes not in this manner; but they are unknown to us" (D, 11.8/207).
Union members pay their dues through their own volition and unions can use those funds how they wish.
It is your 'self' through willpower or volition that to some extent decides which of those committees you're going to listen to at any given moment.
The government, according to the paper, "has largely been reactive to external pressure rather than proactively seeking to address Portugal's main economic challenges through its own volition".
"Javier has developed his strength through his own volition," said Ferguson, "making sure he was in early every morning doing his core work and working on his upper body strength to handle the rigours of the Premier League".
According to Motivation views, the kind of motivational fact that reasons require is a fact about what the agent is or can be motivated (i.e. moved through his own volition) to do.
At its basis you can capture by hand something that is channeling of its own volition through your mind and from your gut.
That's the cool thing about Herb Alpert's work -- it works on so many levels precisely because those levels are allowed to breathe, to become, to be borne of their own volition, through the artist's humility, if you will.
