[MD] Quality as Will

[Steven Peterson]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree, Mark.  Quality as Will makes sense to me.  As does, Will as "the
> ability to choose" or "freedom".  Which I also equate with Quality.  Thus
> "Free Will" is a sort of redundancy, as I think Steve's arguments point out.
>  However, a rhetorical redundancy does not  obviate the metaphysical
> fundamentalness of freedom to will and being.

In this formulation I DON'T thinkit is redundant. If "will" is Quality
then "free will" is Dynamic Quality. But this is of course a very
different conception of the concept of free will. It is not some power
to be excessed or not. It is not the thing deep within each soul to
point to and declare "could have done otherwise" when someone errs. It
is the groundstuff of reality. This concept is so different from the
SOM concept of free will that it wold be better not to use that term
to avoid confusion. Let's just call it DQ.