(April 14, 2016 at 3:08 pm)Evie Wrote: The will is the part that has no freedom.
"Free Willpower" is an oxymoron.
The will is a force, it forces you. You can't motivate your will, your will motivates you.
If I may throw out an alternative (and old) conception of the will's freedom, consider this:
The will used to be considered the "rational appetite", i.e. that part/aspect/power/faculty/whatever of a person which "hungers" for being (in its own rational context, being as goodness). In this sense, as a rational faculty, the "direction/choice" of the will is "determined" by goodness in the abstract (i.e. the will cannot not seek goodness). In your words, "it forces you" to move according to the particular goodness it encounters in particular things.
All people are constantly surrounded by a field of particular things, each of which are more or less good when considered for different purposes and in different circumstances. There is no particular thing which can be considered good in every aspect and in every circumstance and for every purpose. If a person ever encountered such an imaginary thing, that person could not NOT choose and seek it, regardless of context and circumstance.
If a human-will never encounters a particular thing that is good in every aspect for every purpose and in every circumstance, then no one particular thing "determines" the human-will. There is no one particular thing which the will cannot NOT force your towards. In that sense, the will is free. It will "force" you toward some things more than others depending on the circumstances.
The will is free in that it is not determined by any particular thing it encounters, but the things which it encounters exert an attractive force on the will. But what finally determines which thing the will ultimately seeks? The thing, or the person? If it's the thing, then the seeking is not free. If it is the person, then the seeking is more or less free depending on several things. But if it is the person, what determines for the will which thing to force the person to move toward?
