Date of Award

7-1933

Degree Type

Bachelors Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

George H. Mahowald

Second Advisor

William J. Grace

Abstract

The ability to make quick and accurate decisions is the aim of the average nan so, consequently, the matter of choice and decision has always been a subject of inquiry for me. While striving to know more about this power, I have chosen for my subject-matter a field that involves painstaking perusal among intricate, close distinctions. Some interpreters of Johannes Lindworsky, S.J., have maintained that his theory of motives and their influence on the will preclude any freedom of choice. My goal, then, will be to discover if Lindworsky can, consistently with his theory, maintain free-will. If I find that for some reason he does not hold this tenet in his psychological system, I should like to know what this reason is; other¬ wise, I should like to see if the rest of his system leading up to the decision (that man possesses a free-will), in any way corroborates his belief in freedom of the will.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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