| 2171 | The 'will' doesn't exist; there is just conclusion, then action [Homer, by Williams,B] |
| 8230 | Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop [Anon (Cent)] |
| 23316 | For Plato and Aristotle there is no will; there is only rational desire for what is seen as good [Plato, by Frede,M] |
| 23320 | Choice is not explained by the will, but by the operation of reason when it judges what is good [Aristotle, by Frede,M] |
| 23323 | Earlier Stoics speak of assent, but not of choice, let alone of a will [Stoic school, by Frede,M] |
| 22118 | Augustine created the modern concept of the will [Augustine, by Matthews] |
| 1846 | The will can only want what it thinks is good [Aquinas] |
| 1847 | The will must aim at happiness, but can choose the means [Aquinas] |
| 1857 | We don't have to will even perfect good, because we can choose not to think of it [Aquinas] |
| 23180 | The will is the rational appetite [Aquinas] |
| 4309 | Spinoza argues that in reality the will and the intellect are 'one and the same' [Spinoza, by Cottingham] |
| 4838 | Claiming that actions depend on the will is meaningless; no one knows what the will is [Spinoza] |
| 12946 | The idea of the will includes the understanding [Leibniz] |
| 19331 | Will is an inclination to pursue something good [Leibniz] |
| 2220 | Only experience teaches us about our wills [Hume] |
| 6183 | Can pure reason determine the will, or are empirical conditions relevant? [Kant] |
| 6191 | The will is the faculty of purposes, which guide desires according to principles [Kant] |
| 23233 | The will is awareness of one of our inner natural forces [Fichte] |
| 22769 | The concept of the will is the free will which wills its freedom [Hegel] |
| 21924 | As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer] |
| 7187 | Schopenhauer was caught in Christian ideals, because he didn't deify his 'will' [Nietzsche on Schopenhauer] |
| 21365 | Only the will is thing-in-itself, seen both in blind nature and in human action [Schopenhauer] |
| 3772 | The will, in the beginning, is entirely produced by desire [Mill] |
| 24105 | Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings [Nietzsche] |
| 18313 | The big error is to think the will is a faculty producing effects; in fact, it is just a word [Nietzsche] |
| 4554 | The concept of the 'will' is just a false simplification by our understanding [Nietzsche] |
| 18299 | The will is constantly frustrated by the past [Nietzsche] |
| 9265 | The will is the effective desire which actually leads to an action [Frankfurt] |
| 23336 | There is no will for Plato or Aristotle, because actions come directly from perception of what is good [Frede,M] |
| 7861 | Libet says the processes initiated in the cortex can still be consciously changed [Libet, by Papineau] |
| 6660 | Libet found conscious choice 0.2 secs before movement, well after unconscious 'readiness potential' [Libet, by Lowe] |
| 6661 | Libet gives empirical support for the will, as a kind of 'executive' mental operation [Lowe] |
| 23517 | Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within [Seth] |