The latter again are divided into the mechanical (Magic) and the volitional (Animism).
A doctrine more precisely the reverse of the Volitional theory of causation cannot well be imagined.
It is a transformer of the world of our impressions into a totally different world,--the world of our conception; and the transformation is effected in the interests of our volitional nature, and for no other purpose whatsoever.
When we look at certain facts, it seems as if our passional and volitional nature lay at the root of all our convictions.
They all postulate in the interests of their volitional nature a harmony between the latter and the nature of things.
Our volitional nature must then, until the end of time, exert a constant pressure upon the other departments of the mind to induce them to function to theistic conclusions.
But, as we have the elaborate volitional constitution we do have, the remodelling must be effected; there is no escape.
On the contrary, it is more than probable that to the end of time our power of moral and volitional response to the nature of things will be the deepest organ of communication therewith we shall ever possess.
Anatomically, at least, the sensory pathways to the brain and their cortical centers are sharply separated from the centers belonging to the volitional pathways to the muscles.
The ants exhibit positive and negative volitional phenomena, which cannot be mistaken.
I merely refer in passing to the treatment of the will, which is posited as a unity inseparable from the volitional act.
Indeed it accompanies them of necessity, because they are all in close relation, both with one another and with the elementary volitional form.
That art as art is independent alike of utility and of morality, as also of every volitional form, we have above demonstrated.
It remains quite certain that indifferent moral actions do not exist, because moral activity pervades and must pervade every least volitional movement of man.
This volitional fact of externalization is preceded by a complex of various kinds of knowledge.
Here we also find the confutation of that false conception of sincerity, which maintains that the artist, in his volitional or practical life, should be at one with his dream, or with his incubus.
The volitional act is always economic, but true freedom of the will exists and consists in conforming not merely to economic, but to moral conditions, to the human spirit, which is greater than any individual.
Therefore each of them has for concomitants individual volitions andvolitional pleasures and pains which are known as feeling.
A volitional life that reaches the level of reflection is necessarily moral in proportion to the concreteness and harmony of its instincts.
This volitional school supplies a good stepping-stone from metaphysics back to scientific psychology.
Volitional control is acting with the greatest force in the more capable classes and thus threatens to reduce the quality of the population.
Sidenote: Motives in volitional control] Postponement of marriage must be classed as a mode of volitional control of population.
When population is limited in large measure by volitional means instead of by war, starvation, and other material means, the problem changes and the error in such a theory of wages becomes clear.
The failure to marry, from whatever cause, is, in the social view of the question, volitional control.
Volitional control of population begins by the destruction of offspring before or after birth.
Volitional control is not by a central and unified despotism determining human action, but it is by motives of the most complex sort, diffused throughout society and acting upon every member of it.
For if man's rational judgments are markedly conditioned by his neural make-up then the volitional judgments which underlie conduct are likewise conditioned since they are inextricably intermingled with his reason.
They originate in nests of characteristic large cells located in the cerebral cortex and are regarded as paths, though not the only ones, through which volitional impulses are conveyed from the brain.
Here we expected to meet with a careful distinction drawn between automatic, voluntary, and volitional movements, and a cautious handling of the explanations and teachings of these facts; but we are disappointed.
And this conclusion we advance against those who as dogmatically deny that there can be any resemblance between the forces of nature as a revelation of the Infinite, and the volitional energy of man.
And we may validly throw the burden of proof upon the positivist, and ask why the great cosmical force that rules in nature should be radically different from the volitional force which is the root of our personality?
We see the effects of volitional energy in the phenomena which our consciousness forces us to trace back to our own personality as the producing cause.
But where do we see in nature, in the universe, phenomena which we are similarly warranted in construing as the effects of volitional energy, or of constructive intelligence?
So also in the psychical life of man they play a very important part--the leading part in the more composite volitional processes, and they very often arise out of these latter when these have been often repeated.
It is obvious that the number and the reciprocal action of the motives are of decisive moment for the constitution of the volitional process.
Therefore ordered expression of thought in speech corresponds as outward volitional activity to the control of the will over the associations that originally stray here and there without order.
Now this ego is neither an idea, nor a specific feeling, but it consists of those elementary volitional processes of apperception which accompany the processes of consciousness.
It is at once evident that, by reason of this inner conformity, apperception itself may be looked upon as a volitional process.
We have now learned to recognise the emotions, dispositions, and volitional processes as psychical contents, all of which differ from each other in their characteristic processes.
But these expressions are unsuitable, since in reality volitional processes are present in both cases.
On the other hand the volitional processes are marked out from the ordinary emotions by characteristics which give volition its peculiar character.
If only one single motive is present, which prepares the emotion and its discharge into action, we call the volitional process an impulsive act; The acts of animals are clearly in most cases such simple volitional acts.
According to this complication of motives, the end stage, which is especially characteristic of the volitional processes, takes different forms.
The characteristic in which a volitional process differs from an emotion consists essentially in the end of the process that immediately precedes and accompanies the act of volition.
It includes, as we have already seen, intellectual, emotional, and volitional elements.
Volitional action expresses character, but also forms and modifies it.
Very commonly the affection supervenes as the sequel to the unhindered repetition of a once voluntary purposive act, a repetition become tyrannical through volitional debility.
The agitation was increased by emotion and diminished with volitional movement.
Not all who would may tic; psychical predisposition in the shape of volitional enfeeblement is a sine qua non.
Hence the development of a tic in early life is no reason for despair, seeing that we are not justified in the assumption that the volitionaldebility which it proclaims is to persist.
The effect of distraction or of volitional effort is to diminish its activity; in sleep it disappears.
TIC AND HABIT The view which regards tic as a "pathological muscular habit" provides emphatic illustration of the sinister influence of volitional infirmity.
In the infant cortico-spinal anastomoses are awanting, and volitional power is dependent on their establishment and development.
Recollect the ungovernable impulse they feel to execute a convulsive movement that their will might thwart; remember, therefore, at the same time, their volitional enfeeblement.
The intensity and tenacity of any tic are determined by the degree of volitional imperfection to which its subject has sunk.
In some it acts in a limited manner, and without volitional control; in others, it acts in more varied modes, and it manifests some power of volitional control and volitional rest, as well as of involuntary movement.
But, observe that you attribute to nervous action the production of phenomena to which you give the name of mind, when the nervous action evinces some power of volitional variation and control.
Confirmation may be mental and not at the same time volitional, but all volitional confirmation is also mental.
Now the subjects and objects are angels and spirits, in particular their volitional and mental life, and the heat is divine love going forth, and the light is divine wisdom going forth.
The volitional proprium is in essence self-love, and the intellectual proprium is the pride coming of that love.
On the other hand, those who confirm falsity of doctrine and live according to it are in volitional and at the same time in intellectual confirmation.
Fifth: Confirmation of evil, both volitional and intellectual, but not confirmation only intellectual, causes man to believe that his own prudence is everything and divine providence nothing.
Fourth: Confirmation may be mental and not at the same time volitional, but all volitional confirmation is also mental.
But in others, who deny divine providence at the same time, there is volitional confirmation; this, together with persuasion, is found chiefly in worshipers of nature and also in worshipers of self.
Confirmation of evil both volitional and intellectual causes man to believe that one's own prudence is everything and divine providence nothing, but not confirmation solely intellectual.
The voluntarist, indeed, might claim a peculiarly eulogistic supremacy for volitional experience over any other kind; for it is ethically supreme for all, whatever one’s constitutional bent.
But its ethical supremacy is no more the philosophic quale ofvolitional experience, on the voluntaristic conception of philosophy, than is its other eulogistic supremacy, its mere congeniality, for the strongly volitional type of character.
Consciousness is volitional when its focus is a value.
They are judged by their background, by their harmony with the "pattern" which is revealed in the man's volitional life.
The volitional pattern is of a given kind, and the colors which enter into it are selected.
Harmony is obtained at the price of the suppression of many desires; but, where a mind is strongly dominated by a comprehensive volitional unit, the price may be paid without much regret.
Finding no place in the volitional pattern that occupies the mind, they are cast aside and soon forgotten.
In judging the doctrine of the rational social will, bear in mind the following: (1) It rests upon the basis of the impulsive and volitional nature of man.
Such volitional units do not, however, go far toward unifying the efforts of a life.
Obviously, the comprehensive and harmonious volitional complexes which may come to characterize different minds may be of very different complexion.
Even so, each such volitional pattern, the harmonized and unified will of the individual as directed upon some comprehensive end, is judged to be rational or not according as it does or does not accord with the ends pursued by the social will.
Nevertheless, the permanent volitional attitude may be unmistakably present, and may reveal itself in strivings toward the chosen goal.
Nevertheless, even beyond those limits, the attitude of a man's mind toward the actions of his neighbor may be a volitional one.
There is no normal human being who does not exhibit such limited volitional units.
But an ideational object has ordinarily no sure command of the conscious field save under the influence of a volitional idea or some strongly toned affectional state.
Intuition, Feeling, and Volitional requirements and evidences, the Mature Man’s special approaches to Faith.
Already some mental, abstractive, emotional-volitional reaction and interpretation is presumably at work; and not many weeks or months pass before this is quite obviously the case.
Proposed Study of the Mystical-Volitional Element in a Particular, Concrete Instance: St. Catherine of Genoa 86-90 II.
In the Emotional and Volitional Element, as against the Historical and Institutional Element.
Not only, therefore, has it failed to stimulate the volitional element of the psychic nature, but in the psychology of the Orient little if any attention has been given to this faculty.
The intellectual feats just spoken of, unless, indeed, they are referred to some mysterious unconscious mental operations, clearly involve a measure of volitional guidance.
N) prefix added to bases with a prefix paN- to indicate futurevolitional active forms.
N- future volitional prefix of verbs with the base paniN-.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "volitional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alternative; disjunctive; elective; optional; voluntary; willing
