Velleity
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Examples of usage
In philosophy
The 16th-century French philosopher Montaigne, in his essay On the Force of Imagination begins with the epigraph he cites from a schoolboy textbook, Fortis imaginatio generat casum, or "A strong imagination begets the event itself."[2] In this essay, Montaigne describes the various ways that the will (or imagination as he calls it) causes people and other animals to do things or to have things done to them, with the barest of initiatives.[2] In said essay, he links (what is now called) the placebo effect to the power of the will.[2] For example, he describes how a certain Germain, was born a female named Mary, who "that by straining himself in a leap his male organs came out" at the age of 22.[2][3] He also cites the stigmata of Dagobert and Saint Francis, and when the bride Laodice worshipping Venus cured her husband Amasis, King of Egypt of his impotence, among several other examples.[2]
Friedrich Nietzsche describes the velleity of an artist as a "desire to be 'what he is able to represent, conceive, and express'...."[4] Nietzsche championed the will to power, which can be encapsulatedScript error: No such module "Unsubst". as starting with velleity, in his free-will theorem.
Keith David Wyma refers frequently to the "concept of velleity", citing Thomas Aquinas as a pioneer of introducing the idea into philosophy.[5]
In the Kabbalah, the number of Ratzon is 1/60 of perfection, which is the minimum level of the Divine will.[6]
See also
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References
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- ↑ Aaron Ridley, in "Nietzsche, philosophy and the arts," ed. by Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Daniel W. Conway, at pp. 128-131 (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN (emphasis provided), found at Google Book search. Accessed April 29, 2009.
- ↑ Keith David Wyma, Crucible of reason, pp. 197, 221, 223, 225, 227 (Rowman and Littlefield 2004). Template:ISBN. Found at Google books. Accessed June 3, 2010.
- ↑ "There are six levels [each one encompassing ten sub-levels] between netzach (eternity) and ratzon (will)." Ask a Rabbi, citing Talmud Tractate Berachot 57b; Midrash Rabbah Genesis 17:7; Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed 2:36; and Zohar Pekudei 254a, found at Ask a Rabbi, accessed August 4, 2024.
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