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    The will is self-determining rather than determined by it... — Carmelics
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    The will is self-determining rather than determined by its end

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    • 1.Natural causes are determined to perform their acts unless impeded
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    • 2.The will has two inclinations (towards self-fulfillment and towards justice), unlike natural causes which have only one determination
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    • 3.The presence of two inclinations distinguishes willed causes from natural causes
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    • 1.Aquinas argues the intellect presents the will with its object, and the will necessarily tends toward good as such under that presentation.
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    • 2.Having two inclinations does not entail self-determination if both inclinations are themselves fixed responses to intellectually apprehended goods.
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    • 3.A will that reliably tracks the judgment of the intellect is determined by that judgment, not by itself, regardless of how many dispositions it has.
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    • 1.Spinoza demonstrates that the feeling of free choice arises from ignorance of the causal chain producing volition, not from genuine indetermination.
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    • 2.Duns Scotus's own account requires the will's act of self-determination to itself have an explanation, generating a regress that only external determination resolves.
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    Scotus follows a modified Anselmian line, speaking of a single will, with two inclinations: one towards self-fulfillment, the other towards justice). It is the presence of these two inclinations which distinguishes willed causes from natural causes: natural causes are determined to perform their acts (unless impeded), whereas the will is not thus determined (Scotus, Metaphysics IV, 9: in Scotus, On the Will and Morality, pp. 136ff.; Lee 1998; Cross 1999, pp. 84ff.). The will is thus self-determi
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