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From: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch)
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Subject: Re: freedom and reason (attn russ, rich, & laura)
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> Tony:
> 
> I think you've run two concepts together, namely will and capacity. Being
> bound does not necessarily imply a lack of will, simply a lack of the
> ability to carry out that will.
> 
> There is a third component also: desire.
> 
> 						Ed Sheppard
> 						Bellcore

I'm glad Ed brings up desire.  I agree there is a distinction between will
and desire, but I wouldn't bring capacity into it.  Desire is what one
wants to achieve via will (the world and one's instruments of control
coming together), while will is what one can achieve at a given moment.

Desire is the goal to which will applies itself.

Perhaps Ed has a view of will as a passive learner (by passive I mean via
a mode of sitting, watching, and thinking -- maybe active thinking) like
Laura Creighton has.

What separates desire from will in your perspective?

Tony Wuersch
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