Neil , we know what we are doing but in some cases what we believe our motives for those actions to be are not so , rather the real motives are exact opposites and are buried in the unconscious traceable by the psychoanalysts. The promptings to the ' will ' arise from the ' grey matter ' which is unconscious, and we ourselves arise from the same.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:01 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we think a body human if it doesn't know what it is doing RP? Part > of judgement is allowing for mistakes. > > On 2 Jan, 17:31, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> Psychologists say that a person's conscious motives are not the real >> determinants of behavior but one's real motives lie in the unconscious and >> one is not aware of them. A person who is obsessed with cleanliness is >> ostensibly a very clean person but in reality he has strong instinctive sex >> drive which get repressed as he cannot accept them. >> The question is that are we to judge ourselves or judged by others for our >> behavior by the conscious motives or the repressed unconscious motives ? >> Clearly we cannot be judged for factors of which we are not even aware even >> though they are the real determinants of our actions. >> The question now arises of our will , is our will free ? Consciously we are >> free , we think and act as we want , we can open or close our hand freely. >> So , we have freedom of choice , and if our will is bound by unconscious >> determinants we cannot be held accountable for them. If unconsciously we >> are selfish and consciously generous , it is our generosity for which we >> can be judged and not the unconscious motive. So , the phantom of Bondage >> evaporates into thin air ! > > -- > > > --
