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    One cannot will what one believes to be unattainable — fo... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Genuine willing requires determinate cognition of the object and conviction that the object is attainable

    One cannot will what one believes to be unattainable — for example, leaping tall buildings is desirable but not willable

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    Practical judgment judges the “will”, a species of desire marked by determinate cognition and fixing of its object, and by conviction that the object is attainable. While I might desire to leap tall buildings in a bound, I cannot will it (SW II: 99). Now the value of the will’s object cannot determine its evaluation, since Herbart like Kant excludes all material grounds as determinative of moral action. Hence the will itself is the object of evaluation—but how? Because every instance of willing

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