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Willing, Wanting, Waiting (Paperback)
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Richard Holton provides a unified account of intention, choice,
weakness of will, strength of will, temptation, addiction, and
freedom of the will. Drawing on recent psychological research, he
argues that, rather than being the pinnacle of rationality, the
central components of the will are there to compensate for our
inability to make or maintain sound judgments. Choice is understood
as the capacity to form intentions even in the absence of judgments
of what action is best. Weakness of will is understood as the
failure to maintain an intention, or more specifically, a
resolution, in the face of temptation--where temptation typically
involves a shift in judgment as to what is best, or in the case of
addiction, a disconnection between what is judged best and what is
desired. Strength of will is the corresponding ability to maintain
a resolution, an ability that requires the employment of a
particular faculty or skill. Finally, the experience of freedom of
the will is traced to the experiences of forming intentions, and of
maintaining resolutions, both of which require effortful activity
from the agent.
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