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what is the difference between free-will and self-control?

Has anyone ever noticed how cool the wallpaper looks? I've never realised it before but it's completely alive, so pretty. We should get more wallpaper and put it everywhere and then the prettyness will completely take over and it will be the best thing ever.
 
Why do you assume that common English words deconstruct deep psychological categories in a philosophically coherent way?

There's some clear examples where words don't do much analysis, but rather just project crude mechanistic/organisational notions onto the psyche. Like id, ego and superego, for example. So what makes you think that "will" and "self" are labels for coherent notions?
 
Why do you assume that common English words deconstruct deep psychological categories in a philosophically coherent way?

There's some clear examples where words don't do much analysis, but rather just project crude mechanistic/organisational notions onto the psyche. Like id, ego and superego, for example. So what makes you think that "will" and "self" are labels for coherent notions?

all you have is intuition.
 
Has anyone ever noticed how cool the wallpaper looks? I've never realised it before but it's completely alive, so pretty. We should get more wallpaper and put it everywhere and then the prettyness will completely take over and it will be the best thing ever.

Ah, an early entry for the 2008 end-of-year "best Chesney impersonation" award. :D
 
Can you not think of any commonly used terms that do not refer to anything coherent?

Hint: look up the word energy in a thesaurus.
 
controlled and controlling are opposites
No they aren't. Controlled and uncontrolled are opposites.

The fact that you've chosen an unusual way of putting things doesn't make it a paradox. You say 'I want to control myself' is equivalent to 'my self wants to control myself'.

Someone who drives a car is in effect driving themselves. We wouldn't normally put it that way, but there's nothing paradoxical about it.
 
being a controller, and being controlled, are opposites

being the controller = being uncontrolled


if the chief of police is trying to catch an arsonist, what good is it if the chief of pollice IS the arsonist
 
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