The Eschatological Will

2019 ◽  
pp. 381-412
Author(s):  
Han-luen Kantzer Komline
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Final Dimension ◽  
The Will

This chapter presents the final dimension of Augustine’s theologically differentiated conception of will: the will in the perfection of the eschaton. First, it addresses the fully free character of the eschatological will. This full eschatological freedom is to be distinguished not only from various types of freedom the will enjoys in other periods but also from free choice. The chapter next addresses another key feature of the eschatological will: its inability to sin. Augustine defends the desirability of this “blessed necessity” theologically. Finally, this chapter turns to Augustine’s positive characterization of the eschatological will, focusing particularly on his description of its felicity at the conclusion of City of God.

Hobbes among the Philosophical Idealists

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Boucher
Keyword(s):  
The Will ◽  
Individual Self

Hegel identified clear deficiencies in Hobbes’s ‘scientific empiricism’, but he admired his logic and emphasis on the subjective power of the will. In Hegel’s characterization of individual self-consciousness the importance of the master/slave relationship owes a great deal to Hobbes. He was, for Hegel, an original perceptive thinker who tried, but ultimately failed, to raise ‘scientific empiricism’ to the level of philosophy. We cannot hold Hegel responsible for the lack of interest and hostility to Hobbes among early British idealists. It was Green’s almost wholly negative assessment that led such thinkers as Bradley and Seth to ignore Hobbes. We find in Bosanquet an altogether more qualitative nuanced assessment. The reassessment by idealism of Hobbes’s contribution culminates in Collingwood’s appreciation that Hobbes’s greatest discovery was that language was not the device by which we communicate pre-existing knowledge, but was prior to it and without which knowledge could never come into existence.

scholarly journals On Vendler’s freedom of choice

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. e460
Author(s):  
Ana Clara Polakof
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Alternative Semantics ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Existential Import ◽  
The One ◽  
Short Essay

In this short essay, we will provide some contemporary remarks to Vendler (1962 and 1974). We will propose that his characterization of the Free Choice Item any can be properly explained if we take into account an alternative semantics framework. We will assume with Menéndez-Benito (2010) that it is a universal indeterminate pronoun, and with Aloni (2007) that it involves an exhaustification operator to explain its behavior. We will show that, if we take into account this approach, we will be able to explain what Vendler called freedom of choice, lack of existential import, lawlike propositions, among other characteristics. In addition, we will try to do some linguistics in philosophy, and try to explain how a proper understanding of FCI may help to better understand some reference related problems. Finally, we will show that if we take into account a speech act theory, as the one proposed by Searle (1985), we may account for some of the FCI particular behavior with regard to free choice.

scholarly journals Autonomy and the Perspectives of Its Artificial Implementation

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Marcin J. Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
External Causes ◽  
Definition Of

Whichever definition of autonomy is used, it is usually formulated in a negative way by the absence, rather than presence, of the defining factors. Some definitions refer to the absence of external causes, physical determination, coercion or control. If positive factors are used, autonomy is associated with the shift from effective causes to final ones. Both approaches, the former of which is based on the elimination of determinism to secure free choice, and the latter of which is based on the replacement of determination by the past by determination by the future, are inconsistent with the scientific description of reality. This paper is an attempt to provide the positive, constructive characterization of autonomy consistent with the scientific view of reality, which can guide us in our search for its implementation in artefacts.

Saint Augustine, on Free Choice of the Will

1965 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Myra L. Uhlfelder ◽  
Anna S. Benjamin ◽  
L. H. Hackstaff
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
Saint Augustine ◽  
The Will

Sensory characterization of dry-cured ham using free-choice profiling

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Dolors Guàrdia ◽  
Ana P.S. Aguiar ◽  
Anna Claret ◽  
Jacint Arnau ◽  
Luis Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
Dry Cured Ham
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