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FREE-WILL AND FATALISM.
Bad psychology of the determinists.
should be recognised by its pleasure-producing capacity. This idea of prospective Ba pleasure then becomes closely associated det with the strongest solicitation which prompts: us to action. Thus will of man is altogether passive here ; for, it cannot but identify itself with this strongest desire.
The obvious defect of this theory is that it entirely makes the will passive. And it is due to bad psychology. A desire cannot actuate, cannot lead us to do a particular action, unless we identify ourselves with this solicitation which alone can urge us to follow a particular course of action. When we identify ourselves with one of these desires, (this act is called will), it gets into prominence over all others and thereby becomes the strongest one. This strongest one, we call motive proper. In this act of willing which consists in the conscious identifica. tion of ourselves with one of the desires which are by themselves nothing more than mere promptings, the will is wholly active and is completely free.
An objection might be taken here to the effect that even in this act of willing the will
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