Calvin’s human being: Intellect and will in Calvin

will and action in human being

human free acts have always been one of most difficult but important issues in philosophical debates. in this paper, i will try to provide an interpretation of these acts and argue for human free will and freedom. to this end, i will first, disucss the distinction of necessary acts from free acts, and then will argue for the free will, and its relation to free acts and freedom. finally, some co...

Intellect and Will in Augustine's Confessions

The Unity of Intellect and Will: Vygotsky and Spinoza

Jerome Bruner points out in his prologue to the first volume of the English translation of The Collected Works that Vygotsky flirts with the idea that language creates free will. This paper attempts to consider the influence of the Dutch seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza on Vygotsky. An account of Spinoza's anti-Cartesian conception of will is given, to which Vygotsky recognises his indeb...

AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT: A Conceptual Framework

This is an initial summary report of a project taking a new and systematic approach to improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being. A detailed conceptual framework explores the nature of the system composed of the individual and the tools, concepts, and methods that match his basic capabilities to his problems. One of the tools that shows the greatest immediate promis...

The Intellect-will Problem in the Thought of Some Northern Renaissance Humanists: Nicholas of Cusa

This essay and a subsequent one will attempt to demonstrate the inadequacy of the definition of Renaissance humanism as a movement which sought primarily secular "wisdom" by the exercise of man's wholly autonomous intellect and will. Such a definition implies that humanist thought involved a radical separation of the realm of faith-grace from the realm of intellectwill. It would exclude certain...