Lecture 3: Volition: The choice to think

As against the claims of determinism, Will Thomas explains that volition, or free will, is an inescapable fact of human nature and an integral part of our rational faculty. He discusses three aspects of human volition: self-awareness, perceptual attention, and conceptual focus. Objectivism holds that the root of volition is the choice to think or not. Thomas explains how this choice allows us control over our thoughts, lives, and actions; and why the failure to think, the evasion of the facts, lies at the root of human dysfunction and evil.

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