And when at last he was gone, of my own volition I proposed to promise Mr. Carvel that, while he lived, I would take no active part in any troubles that might come.
He was being led, helplessly, all volition gone, and the very idea of resistance became chimerical .
What, then, do we really mean, if we speak of omnipresentVolition achieving at one and the same moment an infinite variety of ends?
The difficulties which it wishes to avoid are those which inevitably encumber the attempt to conceive of Deity as Personality exerting volition and cherishing intelligent purpose.
In either case a conscious volition similar to our own, but outside of us, is supposed to be at work.
But the nerves of volition and motion unite to keep the muscles up to their work, and he walks on without having occasion to think continually, "I must continue walking.
But for the act of volition in the mind, not a muscle would stir.
So faint was that waving curl that it seemed caused rather by the flow of the current than the volition of the fish.
There was no time to aim; but the old gun touched the shoulder and went off without conscious volition on my part.
The principle of autonomy then is: Always so to choose that the same volitionshall comprehend the maxims of our choice as a universal law.
For the metaphysic of morals has to examine the idea and the principles of a possible pure will, and not the acts and conditions of human volition generally, which for the most part are drawn from psychology.
Therefore no imperatives hold for the Divine will, or in general for a HOLY will; OUGHT is here out of place, because the volition is already of itself necessarily in unison with the law.
Therefore imperatives are only formulae to express the relation of objective laws of all volition to the subjective imperfection of the will of this or that rational being, e.
It is only possible when, with every difference of form, the matter of man's volition remains the same, when all his impulses agreeing with his reason are sufficient to have the value of a universal legislation.
For between the disposition and the movement itself the volition has intervened, which, considered in itself, is something perfectly indifferent.
If this catastrophe does not come from moral sources, but from outward things, which have no volition and are not subject to any will, the pity we experience is more pure, or at all events it is not weakened by any idea of moral incongruity.
The real aim, of the story was to test the doctrine of "original sin" and human responsibility for the disordered volitioncoming under that technical denomination.
Now in this extension of my volition and my physical frame into another animal, my tyrannical instincts and my desire for heroic strength are at once gratified.
But the nature of volition will be more fitly considered hereafter.
So that Hume's definition may be amended thus: Volition is the impression which arises when the idea of a bodily or mental action is accompanied by the desire that the action should be accomplished.
Hence volition is uncaused, so far as it belongs to the noumenon; but, necessary, so far as it takes effect in the phenomenal world.
This description of volition may be criticised on various grounds.
The last asylum of the hard-pressed advocate of the doctrine of uncaused volition is usually, that, argue as you like, he has a profound and ineradicable consciousness of what he calls the freedom of his will.
Every volition is a complex idea composed of two elements: the one is the idea of an action; the other is a desire for the occurrence of that action.
This image-making is, of course, voluntary sometimes; but most images come without volition on our part, and require no effort that we are conscious of.
We might then more accurately say that my direct volition is circumscribed by my own body.
The strain of volition is felt in my head, in my arm, throughout my entire body.
But those objective adjustments which fit it to emerge and seek in an outer world its full expression I shall call the volition (B).
It would seem idle, then, to talk about the limitations of volition and a restricted range of will.
Perhaps some day we may send our volition beyond the globe and enter into communication with the inhabitants of Mars.
Volition then will also, under our scheme, have three subordinate stages.
It is now believed that volition is entirely a mental affair, and is confined to the single act of attention.
Is the range of volition thus marked out too narrow?
But a genuine advance toward clarity is made when we confine them within a small area by identifying volition with mental attention.
The character of volition has been decidedly indicated.
Volition is an exertion or change of the central parts of the sensorium, or of the whole of it terminating in some of those extreme parts of it which reside in the muscles and organs of sense.
Volition is an exertion or change of the central parts of the sensorium, or of the whole of it, terminating in some of those extreme parts of it, which reside in the muscles or organs of sense.
This exertion of our volition excites many other ideas, and is attended with pleasurable sensation; which constitutes the sentiment of novelty.
When any violent stimulus breaks the passing current or catenation of our ideas, surprise is produced, which is accompanied with pain or pleasure, and consequent volition to examine the object of it, as explained in Zoonomia, Vol.
When we sleep, the faculty of volition ceases to act, and in consequence the uncompared trains of ideas become incongruous and form the farrago of our dreams; in which we never experience any surprise, or sense of novelty.
Both sensation and volition consist in an affection of the central part of the sensorium, or of the whole of it; and hence cannot exist till the nerves are united in the brain.
Without volition of his own he flung all his weight and strength into one mighty movement that hurled man and weapon from him.
The working of the energy in the disciples is conditioned by the continued life and volition of their Master at His Father's right hand in heaven.
In ethics the term is used, like indeterminism, to denote the theory that mental change cannot always be ascribed to previously ascertained psychological states, and that volition is not causally related to the motives involved.
In great surges, Quest's reviving volition pounded against the walls of his borrowed body.
The event ought to come as a true and loving marriage, with a full volition on each side, inspired by the double sentiment of mutual respect and interest.
The volition to embrace temporarily or permanently a citizenship in any other English-speaking country would rest with each individual.
He is an unconscious Agnostic, and knows nothing of volition in the inanimate world.
Accordingly, they imagined all the outward world to be endowed withvolition and to be directed by it.
Sense and volition are not habitually attributed by them to inanimate objects.
The average savage is a materialist, who associates volition with the energies of nature in a much less thorough and systematic way than the Christian, who believes that a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without the Father.
Agnosticism, which ignores volition in matter, belongs, therefore, to the lower end of the scale of progress.
It is not, perhaps, superfluous to remark that the volition may exercise a very small influence, even when the limiting conditions are in a great part ideal.
All volition is of love and is referable to good; and all knowing, perceiving and thinking is of the understanding, and is referable to truth.
Lest man enter into them by any volition and have control of them, things internal are therefore taken entirely away from the will except for the muscles, which are a covering; moreover, how these act is not known, only that they do.
These do not wish to see it in the face, that is, before it eventuates, fearing that their volition may intrude on something of its order and tenor.
We said above that every man has the faculty of volition called liberty and the faculty of understanding called rationality.
To Kate, intoxicated with her new-found joy, it seemed as though she were borne along on the waves of the music without effort or volition of her own.
