Chapter III: The Will

Difficulties of definition--The Will and
Consciousness--"Involuntary" action--Will in passivity--The
concept of Choice--"Ends" and the Will--The Future and Will--The
External and Will--Criticism of Barratt's axioms and
propositions--Discussion of the relation of Thought and Feeling
to Will--The argument of the Physiologist--The argument of the
Evolutionist--The argument from social statistics--The argument
from Psychiatry, Criminology, etc.--The argument from the
psychological principles on which Evolutional Ethics is
founded--Definition of Natural Law and Necessity--The positive
factors of Evolution--The positive and active character of the
organism as the result of evolution--The equivalence of
Conditions and Results--The positive character of the organism
as a part of Nature--The sense of Freedom as the sense of
Activity--The theory of the Will as determined by Motives--As
determined by Feeling--As determined by the desirability of the
end or object--The argument of Concomitance and that of Sequence
as used by both Materialist and Spiritualist--The endeavor to
prove (1) the causal character of physiological process; (2) the
causal character of Consciousness--Inconsistencies of these
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