GEC-Ethics: Reason vs Will by SHANE VERIL

Study this image

shaneveril — 2025-05-20 02:16:04 UTC

Observe and study the driftwood.

a) To which direction is the driftwood going?

b) When can you or any person be like the driftwood?

What is Reason?

shaneveril — 2025-05-20 02:22:09 UTC

The moral person is endowed with an intellect and will. The "will" is what "disposes" what the "the intellect proposes." Reason conducts the study, research, investigation, and fact-finding. It uses logic, the principle of Consistency, and avoids fallacious reasoning to come up with a truthful and accurate proposition. In a research study, the product or work of reason is the body of facts gathered, organized, synthesized, and evaluated. The job of the will is to make a decisive conclusion.

Will

shaneveril — 2025-05-20 02:28:03 UTC

The will is the faculty of the mind that is associated with decision-making. It's the one that says yes or no. This author says this, that author says that all others are saying the same thing. Now, decide with your will what you yourself should say or think.

shaneveril — 2025-05-20 02:33:01 UTC

Decision making which is an activity of the will can be developed. Early in life, like children, one should already be given the opportunity to exercise his will, like being trained to make choices from alternative. Do you want to eat or not? Rice or bread? Coffee or tea? This is true of societies where a culture of choice give opportunities for the development of the will. A culture of spoon-feeding does not develop the will. Banking education, a method of teaching where the teacher simply deposits facts and concepts and withdraws the same period during quizzes and tests without encouraging the students to think and reflect, does not promote the development of the will.

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shaneveril — 2025-05-20 02:34:41 UTC

shaneveril — 2025-05-20 02:40:50 UTC

Jean Paul Sartre, the French Philosopher, and the most existentialist was popular saying that an individual person is nothing until he/she starts making decisions. What ultimately constitutes who a person is are his/her decisions. The essence of being a person equals his/her bundle of decisions. Apparently, the mark of the maturation of culture is manifested through the development of a culture of moral strength or virtue or will power or its free will. "Free virtue, or will Wil is the "capacity of rational a course of action from agents to choose among various alternatives."

Free will is the ability to choose between different actions unimpeded, the possible courses of power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants. It is the power of self-determination. When the will is free, there is freedom.

The Courage to be

shaneveril — 2025-05-20 02:47:49 UTC

"Purity of heart is to will one thing," says Kierkegaard. But to "will one thing" needs courage. According to Paul Tillich (1952), (C)ourage is self-affirmation 'in-spite-of, that is in spite of that which tends to prevent the self from affirming itself." Courage is "the affirmation of being inspite of non-being" This implies affirming, accepting oneself inspite of one's defects, lack, or imperfections, affirming the world we live in inspite all that it lacks. In specific terms, courage is affirming, allowing the drug addict or drug dependent to live in spite of his drug addiction. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Courage is not giving up because of setbacks and failures. It is keeping right on keeping on. In politics, courage is affirming or accepting one's people in spite of their ignorance, and poverty. Political will means the courage to promote the greatest good of the greatest number in spite of their selfishness, greed, and unruly behavior. Commitment, engagement, fidelity, and authentic existence are all forms of "affirmation of being inspite of non-being," Courage is affirming the world in spite of its tragedies. The last line in Desiderata says it so, "(w)ith all its sham, drudgery and broken arms, it is still a beautiful world.