Page 9 - Logical Philosophy: A Compendium

LOGICAL PHILOSOPHY 5

4. Conceiving Divine volition ................................................................................................. 152
5. The study of volition ........................................................................................................... 154
3. Further Analysis of Volition .................................................................................................... 155
1. Knowledge of volition ......................................................................................................... 155
2. Freedom of the will ............................................................................................................. 156
3. Decision and choice ............................................................................................................. 158
4. Goals and means .................................................................................................................. 159
4. Consciousness and Responsibility ........................................................................................... 162
1. The consciousness in volition .............................................................................................. 162
2. The factors of responsibility ................................................................................................ 164
3. Judging, and misjudging, people ......................................................................................... 166
5. Influence and Freedom ............................................................................................................ 170
1. Influence occurs via consciousness ..................................................................................... 170
2. Knowledge of effort, influence and freedom....................................................................... 171
3. Formal analysis of influence ............................................................................................... 172
4. Incitement ............................................................................................................................ 174
6. Further Analysis of Influence .................................................................................................. 177
1. Some features of influence .................................................................................................. 177
2. Processes of influence ......................................................................................................... 179
3. Instincts in relation to freewill ............................................................................................. 181
4. Liberation from unwanted influences .................................................................................. 182
5. Propositions about the future ............................................................................................... 182
7. The Workings of Volition ....................................................................................................... 184
1. Cultural context and epistemological considerations .......................................................... 184
2. Theoretical context .............................................................................................................. 185
3. Stages in the process of volition .......................................................................................... 188
4. The scope of freewill ........................................................................................................... 192
8. Volition and the Special Sciences ........................................................................................... 194
1. Volition and the laws of physics ......................................................................................... 194
2. Volition and biology ............................................................................................................ 196
3. Therapeutic psychology ...................................................................................................... 199
9. Will, Velleity and Whim ......................................................................................................... 202
1. Cognition, volition and valuation ........................................................................................ 202
2. Velleity ................................................................................................................................ 205
3. Whim ................................................................................................................................... 206
4. Inner divisions ..................................................................................................................... 207
10. Affections and Appetites ..................................................................................................... 209
1. Valuation ............................................................................................................................. 209
2. The main valuations ............................................................................................................ 210
3. Ethology .............................................................................................................................. 213
11. Complications of Influence ................................................................................................. 216
1. Habits .................................................................................................................................. 216
2. Obsessions and compulsions ............................................................................................... 217
3. The ego abhors a vacuum .................................................................................................... 220
12. Urges and Impulses ............................................................................................................. 223
1. Physical urges and impulses ................................................................................................ 223
2. Mental urges and impulses .................................................................................................. 227
3. Formal analysis of physical and mental urges ..................................................................... 228
4. Are there drives within the soul? ......................................................................................... 230
5. Formal analysis of spiritual urges ........................................................................................ 231
13. The Quasi-Purposive in Nature ........................................................................................... 234
1. Purposiveness ...................................................................................................................... 234
2. Organic functions ................................................................................................................ 234
3. The continuity of life ........................................................................................................... 237
14. Concepts of Evolution ......................................................................................................... 239