1. Harry Frankfurt and the Concept of Will
Plato, the great Greek philosopher, further expounds on the procedure of how reason effects will in his books, The Republic and Phaedrus. ... These philosophers agree that effective desires motivate one to act and that to increase one's enjoyment and to lessen the pain, one employs reason to sort through the desires to find value in them. ... Unlike other philosophers before him, Hume vehemently opposes the view that practical reason can motivate a person to action. ... Unlike the other philosophers, Rawls boldly claims that the person does not follow desires that spring up out of nowher...
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