Will and Deliberation

As previously discussed, Will is indefinite Motility, requiring specification from another source before it eventuates in determinate action. That process of specification often entails more or less explicit phases of deliberation and selection. In other words, Deliberation can casually be characterized as determining Will, which, however, does not mean, as it does for some systems, that the former is the efficient cause of the latter. Rather, here it means, more precisely, that Will is the Material Cause of Action, the Formal Causality of which often entails a deliberative phase.