will
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Your will is your mental ability to choose which of your competing desires to act on—essentially, what lets you pick the strongest one when you want different things at the same time. It matters because it determines whether you follow through on your choices or get pulled in different directions by conflicting wants.
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Will, within philosophy, is a faculty of the mind. Will is important as one of the parts of the mind, along with reason and understanding. It is considered central to the field of ethics because of its role in enabling deliberate action.
A recurring question in Western philosophical tradition is about free will—and the related, but more general notion of fate—which asks how the will can truly be free if a person's actions have either natural or divine causes determining them. In turn, this is directly connected to discussions on the nature of freedom and to the problem of evil.