Questions to Discuss

How does choice or volition depend upon thought and feeling? Why can’t we just change our will? (“Human life does not run by will alone”!)

Volition depends on thought and feeling simply put because you cannot make any sort of decision without first have a thought of some kind and thus having some feeling accompanying that thought. In truth it is probably the most rational argument for personal responsibility that I have heard in a very long time. All too often we see individuals and perhaps even as corporate bodies abdicating responsibility for decisions made. This of course challenges the “I don’t know why I did it, it just happened”.

We can’t just simply change our will because we need to first change our thoughts and feelings. If we believe that our thoughts and feelings to some extent govern our wills, then there needs to be a deeper soul searching in order to affect any kind of long lasting change to our volition. Otherwise we are destined to repeat old patterns. Change the thoughts and our feelings towards those thoughts so there is proper perspective and there will be a dramatic affect on volition.