10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VELLEITIES»
Discover the use of
velleities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
velleities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ethics: A Thematic Compilation
velleities for contradictory items. One may also have a mix of velleity for
something and volition for its opposite: the latter dominates, of course, but that
does not erase the fact of velleity. All this is also true for not-willing, of course.
Thus, if one ...
2
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing
The double negative, coupled with velleities, suggests immobility in body and
soul. Velleity — "a very low degree of desire or volition, not leading to action" —
is a word and a condition common (for example) in T. S. Eliot's male protagonists
...
3
Logical Philosophy: A Compendium
Thus, postures like willingness (a general openness) or readiness (a more
immediate preparedness) to do something, are velleities that for the moment we
do not necessarily wish to develop into full-blown volitions. However, note, such ...
4
Volition and Allied Causal Concepts
Although one cannot simultaneously fully will one value and will its negation, one
can indeed have a double velleity – i.e. velleities for contradictory items. One may
also have a mix of velleity for something and volition for its opposite: the latter ...
5
Logical and Spiritual Reflections
Meditation on velleities. Self-knowledge is achieved by meditatively observing
not only our thoughts and actions, but (more subtly) our velleities in thought and
action. Velleity is starting but unfinished volition. Often, we are unaware of our
own ...
Meditation on velleities. Self-knowledge is achieved by meditatively observing
not only our thoughts and actions, but (more subtly) our velleities in thought and
action. Velleity is starting but unfinished volition. Often, we are unaware of our
own ...
7
Traité de L'amour de Dieu
In brief, these wishings or velleities are nothing else but a little love, which may
be called love of simple approbation, because the soul approves the good she
knows, and being unable to effectually desire she protests she would willingly ...
Saint Francis (de Sales), 1942
8
The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Ezekiel ...
An unregenerate man may have many faint velleities and wishes after grace.
When he hears so much spoken of the beauty and excellency of holiness, he is
convinced, in his judgment, that these things are true : that without holiness no
man ...
Ezekiel Hopkins, Josiah Pratt, 1809
9
Kant's Metaphysic of Experience
(The latter would amount to saying that, however plagued and afflicted, he was
not really tempted.) It would best be taken to signify his possession of the
undivided will, the inner integrity of the man whose velleities were pure even
though the ...
10
T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage
As critical intelligences, they have, and have given utterance to, pro-classical
velleities - for order and clarity and decorum; as creative writers they are, in spite
of all the restraint they impose upon themselves, disordered, obscure, indecorous
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VELLEITIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
velleities is used in the context of the following news items.
The Moments of Realism
... which perception consists in a narcissistic and hypochondriac flattering of the organism's velleities.” But this means losing the thing (illness) and transforming it ... «lareviewofbooks, Jul 15»
A Baptist leader with a message the Synod of Bishops should hear
Moore drives home the point that marriage will endure, and the Church will endure, because both are established by God, who is not subject to the velleities of ... «Catholic Culture, Jun 15»
Can Pope Francis Free Cuba?
Beneath his bonhomous velleities, Pope Francis is obviously a very skillful operator walking a tightrope between engaging in tactical outreach and maintaining ... «National Review Online, May 15»
Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self
W.S. — Yes, and look at the literature that is highly valorized, even in the modern period—you know, the subtle velleities of Henry James or Proust. These are ... «Boing Boing, Jan 15»
Rex Murphy: Obama's climate 'deal' with China? 'Surrender' might …
It is merely two men, for their own political convenience, exchanging environmentalist velleities, word incense to their charmed believers. Did Mr. Obama come ... «National Post, Nov 14»
The three lives of Khushwant Singh
A good style is a matter of rendering out of yourself all the cupidities, all the cripplings, all the velleities…' …The fact that Khushwant let his three selves flow into ... «The Hindu, Aug 14»
Do Benjamin Libet's Experiments Show that Free Will Is an Illusion?
Libet proposes (based on his work) a common-sense model of free will: our unconscious is a bubbling sea of velleities. We freely choose the impulses we wish ... «Discovery Institute, Jan 14»
It doesn't Costa lot to taste this mediocre – and luckily you can find …
The task is worthy of Henry James or Wallace Stevens – some master of the intersection between social velleities and individual desires; but alas, there's only ... «New Statesman, Mar 13»
West: The race is on in Ladies' Classic
Malevolent velleities are part of her royal demeanor. Since returning from Dubai, where she finished ninth in the world's richest race, apparently regarding the ... «ESPN, Oct 12»
Beat the Devil
Against the illusions and velleities of the voyagers to Africa is set the character of the Spanish police chief, prototype of a much more ample version in Jericho ... «CounterPunch, Sep 12»
