Is there a limit to human will? What is the will?

Will is the psychological tendency of people to consciously determine the goal, and adjust and control their own actions according to the purpose, overcome difficulties, and achieve the predetermined goal.

It is an important psychological factor in the process of decision-making psychological activities, a concentrated manifestation of people's conscious initiative, manifested in people's active actions to change reality, and has the role of controlling and regulating behavior, such as initiating, persisting, stopping and changing.

The volitional process consists of two stages: one is the decision stage, which is also the preparatory stage for volitional action. In this stage, the problem of motivational struggle is first solved, and then the goal of the action is determined, effective strategies, methods and means to achieve the goal are selected, and a practical plan of action is developed.

Personal opinion. Will is a kind of ideological determination, a kind of firm belief and indomitable spiritual strength that supports oneself.

Will is the mental process by which a person consciously determines the purpose and governs the action, overcomes difficulties, and achieves the goal. That is, the mental process of human thought is seen in the mental process of action.

Unconscious instinctive activity, blind impulses, or some habitual actions contain little or no element of volition.

1.The purpose of volitional action: Because the human will has a clear purpose, it can not only initiate certain actions that are in line with the purpose, but also stop certain actions that are not in line with the purpose.

The magnitude of the effect of volitional action is shifted by the level of one's purpose and social value. The nobler, more ambitious, and more socially valuable the purpose, the higher the level of will performance.

2.Volitional action is linked to overcoming difficulties: the process of overcoming difficulties is also the process of volitional action.

There are two kinds of difficulties: external difficulties and internal difficulties. Whether a person is strong-willed or not, and how strong he is, is measured by the nature of the difficulties and the degree of difficulty in overcoming them.

3。Volitional action is based on voluntary action: human action is made up of action, and there are two types of action: involuntary action and random action.

Involuntary movements refer to actions that do not have a predetermined purpose, while casual actions refer to actions that have a predetermined purpose and are guided by consciousness. With random movements, people can organize, dominate, and regulate a series of actions according to the purpose to achieve the intended purpose. Voluntary action is a necessary part of volitional action and is the basis of volitional action.

It seems that LZ is just getting into contact with Schopenhauer's philosophy.

In Schopenhauer's words, we cannot determine or describe what the will is. Because:

The subject of will and the subject of knowledge are the same. ”

So, the will, or in layman's terms, your "heart" will never become your object. We can only know it in our individual activities, that is, in time.

It also reminds me of the Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore's poem: "We cannot see ourselves, but only our own shadow." ”

In this article, Schopenhauer gives a detailed analysis of intelligence and will. You can find this article in Schopenhauer's Essays on Thought, translated and published by Wei Qichang.

The driving force and driving force of all phenomena. For example, iron balls have motive forces such as roundness, metal, and weight, and the sum of motive forces such as falling when gravitational, rusting when wet, and being used to make cannonballs. Another example is human beings, who are flesh and blood and can perceive, which is the driving force, and the generation of certain practices and ideas is the sum of the driving force and the driving force.

To put it simply, the will is the totality of a phenomenon.