1. Harry Frankfurt and the Concept of Will
This will is the main motivator for one's actions and is constituted by the first-order desires and second-order desires. The first order desires are just basic cravings for an object or an idea-these are desires that even animals possess. ... Second-order desires are a concern about the first-order desires; these are desires for a desire. For example, one might have a first-order desire to smoke marijuana and a second order-desire to desire not to smoke marijuana. ... But when a person wants his first-order desire to happen or to be effective, it becomes his second-order volition ...
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