Sunday, March 9, 2008
Descartes Will and Errors
Though our Will is given to us and is a 'perfect' form of this ability, it is still tempered by the minds intellect and ability to reason. That the source of some of our errors can be our ability to make concrete decisions according to our free will, even when presented inaccurate or incomplete knowledge. But what is to say that even if a person were to have full and complete knowledge of a situation that they would make the 'correct' choice? Many people make decisions that are not necessarily the right choice, but it is the one that they want to make. According to reason they are making an incorrect choice, but what if their goals are different than those we generally consider right and good?
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i agree with you on questioning a person's motives and understanding they could differ from any one person to the next or differ from most people in general. Aristotle makes a good point with his "good" argument. i dont think any person can have full knowledge of any situation. no matter how small the situation, we all still exist within the universe, and cannot suspend it to make outside judgements. so making a "wrong" decision based on free will has to marked down to learning, and i dont understand how we can make wrong decisions if determinism is true
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