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    Our wills are necessarily aimed at what is rational and r... — Carmelics
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    Our wills are necessarily aimed at what is rational and reasonable.

    Free Will & ForeknowledgeVirtue Ethics
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    • 1.To will something is to govern oneself in accordance with reason.
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    • 2.The will is identified with practical reason.
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    • 1.Akrasia (weakness of will) is a well-attested phenomenon whereby agents deliberately choose against their own rational judgment.
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    • 2.Aristotle's account in Nicomachean Ethics VII shows that willing and reasoning can systematically diverge in actual human psychology.
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    • 3.A necessary aim at rationality would render akratic action conceptually impossible rather than merely difficult to explain.
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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that the will is fundamentally driven by passion and desire, with reason serving only as their instrument.
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    • 2.If reason is merely a slave to the passions, the will cannot be identified with practical reason itself.
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    A different interpretive strategy, which has gained prominence in recent years, focuses on Kant’s apparent identification, in Groundwork III, of the will and practical reason. One natural way of interpreting Kant’s conception of freedom is to understand it in terms of the freedom and spontaneity of reason itself. This in turn apparently implies that our wills are necessarily aimed at what is rational and reasonable. To will something, on this picture, is to govern oneself in accordance with reas
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