According to Harry Frankfurt the drug addict has established free will when ...
the first order desire to be effective, when they want it to be their will, Frankfurt calls this a second
1 Free will and second-order volitions. In “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person”, Frankfurt presents a theory of free action. Note that ...
Frankfurt argues that the difference between a person and an animal (human or ... Df5: V is one of A's second-order volitions iff V is one of A's second order ...
2 Free will and second-order volitions. So far we have
widespread influence on subsequent thinking in ethics and philosophy of mind, especially through its central idea of 'second-order' desires and volitions. Frank-.
unable to form volitions of the second order, is labelled by Frankfurt a 'wanton': ...
second-order desires that are not second-order volitions. Page 8. 12 THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY capacities that a person is capable of becoming ...
These second-order desires Frankfurt calls second-order volitions. There is no theoretical limit to how highly-ordered one's desires might be.
According to. Frankfurt, agents can have first-order desires and volitions-to do.