ETHICS 5th Lesson

• The Intellect and Will

  •  The moral person is endowed with an intellect and will.
• •  The will is what “disposes” what the “intellect proposes”.
• •  Reason conducts the study, research, investigation, and fact finding.
• •  Will is the faculty of the mind that is associated with decision making. It’s the one that says yes or no.
• •  Jean Paul Sartre, the French philosopher, and the most popular existentialist was saying that an individual person is nothing until he/she starts making decisions
• Free will is the capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives.