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Autonomy, Necessity, and Love (Chapter 11) - Necessity, Volition, and Love

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I. There are several kinds of actions that, in one sense or another, we must perform. These actions are not coerced; nor are the movements we make when we perform them spasmodic, or in any other manner beyond our physical control. What we do is neither compulsive nor compelled. The actions are wholly voluntary. Nonetheless, we have no real alternatives to performing them. One category of such actions is made up of the various things that we have to do because they are indispensable to the attainment of our settled goals. These are the necessities of ambition and prudence. In a second category, there are the more peremptory imperatives of moral obligation. They are the necessities of duty. These two categories do not exhaust the significantly distinct kinds of actions concerning which we recognize that we have no choice. Besides what is conditionally indispensable to us on account of our prudential interests and our ambitions, and besides the demands that are made upon us categorically

Autonomy, Necessity, and Love (Chapter 11) - Necessity, Volition, and Love Search Institution Login Search Hostname: page-component-76d6cb85b7-f97m6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-07-21T20:43:34.670Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false Home > Books > Necessity, Volition, and Love > Autonomy, Necessity, and Love Necessity, Volition, and Love Buy print or eBook [Opens in a new window] Read book online Book contents Frontmatter Contents Preface Sources 1 The Logic of Omnipotence 2 Descartes's Discussion of His Existence in the Second Meditation 3 Descartes on the Creation of the

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