Kindly substitute ' matter ' for ' unconscious' with reference to promptings to will.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:39 AM, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ! >> >> -- >> >> >> --
