"I love professions that arise rather from a necessity rather than from a velleity," says de Mayda.
|
|
Velleity is the lowest degree of volition, a slight wish or tendency.
|
|
Accessed April 29, 2009. Nietzsche championed the will to power, which can be encapsulated as starting with velleity, in his free-will theorem. Keith David Wyma refers frequently to the "concept of velleity", citing Thomas Aquinas as a pioneer of introducing the idea into philosophy. Keith David Wyma, Crucible of reason, pp.
|
|
Psychologist Avi Sion writes, "Many psychological concepts may only be defined and explained with reference to velleity." (Emphasis in original.)Avi Sion, "Volition and allied causal concepts," p. 190 (2004). . Found at Google books.
|
|
Former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus also recorded a version for the Flying Nun tribute album Under the Influence - 21 Years of Flying Nun Records in 2002. Boston band Prickly covered the song on their 1997 LP Velleity.
|
|
The marketer Matt Bailey described it as "a desire to see something done, but not enough desire to make it happen".Matt Bailey, "Viral marketing", excerpt "Analytics 1.0 - A Case of Velleity," found at Site Logic marketing website. Accessed April 29, 2009.
|
|
Second place went to Betty Jean Altschul of Norfolk, Virginia, who had misspelled "velleity". Altschul was also the shortest competitor, at 4 foot 6 inches, and stood on a dictionary in the final round to use the microphone.(4 August 1960). Spelling Feldman's Secret, Sarasota Journal(10 June 1961).
|
|
He also cites the stigmata of Dagobert and Saint Francis, and when the bride Laodice worshiping Venus cured her husband Amasis, King of Egypt of his impotence, among several other examples. Friedrich Nietzsche describes the velleity of an artist as a "desire to be 'what he is able to represent, conceive, and express'...." Aaron Ridley, in "Nietzsche, philosophy and the arts," ed. by Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Daniel W. Conway, at pp. 128-131 (Cambridge University Press, 2002) , (emphasis provided), found at Google Book search.
|
|
Spinoza thought that there is no free will. :"Experience teaches us no less clearly than reason, that men believe themselves free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined." Baruch Spinoza, Ethics David Hume discussed the possibility that the entire debate about free will is nothing more than a merely "verbal" issue. He suggested that it might be accounted for by "a false sensation or seeming experience" (a velleity), which is associated with many of our actions when we perform them.
|
|