He is indeed only kept from a complete break with it by the position he ascribes to sympathy as outside of the ordinary sphere of voluntary action.
Sidenote: the latter of which] [Sidenote: is inconsistent with the nature of voluntary action.
There is, however, one view of the feelings which prompt to voluntary action, which is sometimes thought to cut short all controversy as to the principles on which such action ought to be regulated.
This power also I have;--the faculty of voluntary action, or volition.
We cannot conceive of any being having the power of voluntary action, and exerting that power without any reason whatever why he did it.
They are capable of spontaneous, as well as voluntary action.
Edwards's meaning plainly is, that the terms are convertible: volition may be called the cause of voluntary action, or the sense of the most agreeable may be called the cause.
To come within the category of a voluntary action, it must be performed consciously, and there is also present some consciousness of an end to be realized.
Now in thus tracing the course of a voluntary action are we doing any more than observing the action of desire in consciousness?
Voluntary Action Pathways* differ in but one essential respect from those of reflex action.
These are known as reflex action, voluntary action, and secondary reflex action.
Mankind are therefore agreed in the admission of necessity, if they admit that these two circumstances take place in voluntary action.
Hence the relation which motive bears to voluntary action is that of cause to effect; nor, placed in this point of view, is it, or ever has it been, the subject of popular or philosophical dispute.
Motive is to voluntary action in the human mind what cause is to effect in the material universe.
And the effect is also of a particular kind, being likewise of a moral nature; consisting in some inclination or volition of the soul, or voluntary action.
He draws a distinction between voluntary actions and free actions; and as an instance of a voluntary action which is not free, he cites the case of a man who, as he supposes, is constrained to act from fear.
If this were true, neither children nor animals would be capable of voluntary action.
A voluntary action, then, is that of which the beginning is in the agent--he knowing the particular circumstances under which he is acting.
Children and animals are capable of voluntary action, but not of preconcerted action: sudden deeds, too, are voluntary, but not preconcerted.
Commanders had been given little guidance thus far, and a carefully planned program of voluntary action should be given a chance.
When I look back and reflect upon a voluntary action, I seem to find that it differs from an involuntary action in the fact that a certain portion of my character has been consulted.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voluntary action" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
