Will and Swerve

'Swerve', for Lucretius, is a principle of Variation in Nature. Hence, Swerve is a manifestation of what has here been introduced as the 'Material Principle', i. e. the process of Becoming-Diverse. One important distinction between Swerve and the Material Principle is that while the former is an exception to the rule of regular motion, the latter, following Deleuze's demonstration that Repetition is a special case of Differentiation, conceives all motion as varying what precedes it, to a greater or lesser degree of similitude. Aside from that distinction, the two principles agree that spontaneity is not to be confused with unconditionality--an occurrence of Variation can be spontaneous, and, yet, its effects are conditioned by what precedes them, i. e. Difference is always relative to some given. Now, since Will is the Material Principle of Experience, it can be characterized as 'self-Swerve'. In contrast, most traditional concepts of 'freedom', notably Sartre's, fail to appreciate Swerve, since they equate spontaneity with unconditionality, and, hence, are processes more of escape than of variation.