Symel Noelin S.

De Guzman 2007- 03646

Feb. 28, 2012 Philosophy 176

The Will as the Last Appetite

In deliberation, the last appetite, or aversion, immediately adhering to the action, or to the omission thereof, is that we call the will; the act, not, the faculty of willing. And beasts that have deliberation must necessarily also have the will. The definition of the will, given commonly by the Schools, is that it is a rational appetite, is not good. For if it were, then there be no voluntary act against reason. For a voluntary act is that which preceedeth from the will, and no other. But if instead of a rational appetite, we shall say an appetite resulting from a precedent deliberation, then the definition is the same that I have given here. Will, therefore, is the last appetite in deliberating. The Will Chapter VI, Book I of the Leviathan