Search results for "tahto"
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Subjektiivisuuden periaate ja siveellisyys Hegelin oikeusfilosofiassa
1998
Motivational characteristics and resistance training in older adults: A randomized controlled trial and 1-year follow-up
2018
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 9‐month supervised resistance training intervention on motivational and volitional characteristics related to exercise, and whether the absolute level and/or intervention‐induced change in these characteristics predict self‐directed continuation of resistance training 1 year after the intervention. Community dwelling older adults aged 65‐75, who did not fulfill physical activity recommendations, were randomized into resistance training intervention groups: training once‐ (n = 26), twice‐ (n = 27), three‐times‐a‐week (n = 28) or non‐training control group (n = 25). Training groups participated in supervised resistance training for 9 m…
Beyond free will : The embodied emergence of conscious agency
2019
Is it possible to reconcile the concept of conscious agency with the view that humans are biological creatures subject to material causality? The problem of conscious agency is complicated by the tendency to attribute autonomous powers of control to conscious processes. In this paper, we offer an embodied process model of conscious agency. We begin with the concept of embodied emergence – the idea that psychological processes are higher-order biological processes, albeit ones that exhibit emergent properties. Although consciousness, experience, and representation are emergent properties of higher-order biological organisms, the capacity for hierarchical regulation is a property of all livin…
Aikansa sankarit : arvostetun elämän muotokuva ja muutos 1965-1995
2005
Peaceful Foreign Policy and Remembrance of War Effort : The Conceptualisation of Willingness to Defend in Finland and Its Connections to Previous Arm…
2022
In Finland, a conceptualization of willingness to defend has been a traditional part of the defence-related debates and the state has vested interests to maintain the high level of willingness. This paper examines the connections to the Second World War in political discourse related to willingness to defend. Based on the analysis of political and societal debates, I will demonstrate that the Second World War serves as an historical experience for the understanding of the concept by offering an idea of individual sacrifice relevant to the survival of the state, as a prime example. peerReviewed
Freedom and responsibility in Avicenna
2022
It is still a matter of some debate whether Avicenna grounds moral responsibility in a robust notion of free will. In this contribution, I will first delve into Avicenna’s theory of voluntary agency, arguing that he holds voluntary agency to be responsive to reasons but also thoroughly determined by the agent’s beliefs concerning the relevant goals, instruments, and qualifying circumstances. Since these beliefs in turn are caused, it seems that there is little room for a causally undetermined will in Avicenna’s theory. I will conclude by considering the question of whether Avicenna is some kind of compatibilist concerning the relation between determinism and responsibility. peerReviewed
Kirjallisuus ja kausaaliset operaattorit : mitä kirjallisuus opettaa moraalista?
2015
Tutkielman tavoitteena on puhua kausaalisen determinismin nojalla kirjallisuuden tiedollisen merkityksen puolesta filosofisia ajatuskokeita vastaan. Pyrkimyksenä on osoittaa, että kirjallisuus voi kertomuksen mittaan pystyttää sellaisen kausaalisten suhteiden välisten ketjun, että niiden välisten merkitysten ymmärtämisen myötä lukija tulee omaksuneeksi tunnekokemukseen perustuvia tietoja ja uskomuksia. Filosofiset ajatuskokeet eivät kykene tuottamaan tällaista kokemukseen perustuvaa vaikutusvoimaa. Argumenttini tämän kokemustiedon puolesta nojaa kausaalisen determinismin jyrkkään muotoon, jonka mukaan kokemukset ohittavat tietoisuuden ja vapaan tahdon portinvartijat, ja ne tuntuvat affektei…
Maanpuolustustahto toimii ulkopoliittisena työkaluna
2020
Maailman kamppaillessa Kiinan Wuhanista alkanutta koronavirusta vastaan on paikallaan alleviivata yhteiskunnallisen kriisinkestävyyden merkitystä. Tuossa kestävyydessä on osansa myös yhteiskunnan tilalla. Tässä kirjoituksessa pohditaan, maanpuolustustahdon näkökulmasta sitä, miten yhteiskunnan tila liittyy maanpuolustukseen ja ennen kaikkea ulkopolitiikkaan. Kyse on yhteiskunnan vahvuudesta, joka luo mahdollisuuksia myös sisäpolitiikan ulkopuolella. nonPeerReviewed
Elisabeth on Free Will, Preordination, and Philosophical Doubt
2021
Elisabeth is widely known as a critic of René Descartes' account of mind--body interaction and scholarly interpretations of her view on the will most often pose the question about the freedom of the will in relation to bodily impulses such as the passions. This chapter takes a different perspective and focuses on the problem of the compatibility of free will and providence, as it is discussed in a sequence of six letters that Elisabeth and Descartes wrote between September 1645 and January 1646. The chapter focuses on this specific metaphysical problem in order to ask what Elisabeth's remarks on the topic can tell about her general philosophical method as well as about her particular philos…
Schelling, esotericism and the meaning of life
2019
F.W.J. Schelling argues in his middle period work Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom that will should be understood as the most fundamental constitutive element of reality. Though it is often downplayed in recent scholarship, Schelling derived his most central ideas for this work more or less directly from the theosophy of Jacob Boehme. I will argue that far from peripheral and antiquated curiosity, Schelling´s esoteric influences constitute the very foundation of his middle period thought. Schelling´s affinity to esotericism enabled him to develop a form of pantheism, which is not tied to the familiar problematic aspects of traditional Christian and post-Christian nar…