Will
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
- Will (philosophy), a philosophical concept.
- Free will, the trait that produces conscious choices and actions.
- The Will to Power, a book and concept by Nietzsche
- Will to live, a concept by Schopenhauer
[edit]
Etymology
From Middle English willen, wullen, wollen, from Old English willan (“to want”), from Proto-West Germanic *willjan, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”).
Cognate with Dutch willen, Low German willen, German wollen, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk vilja, Norwegian Bokmål ville, Latin velle (“wish”, verb) and Albanian vel (“to satisfy, be stuffed”).
[edit]
See also
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Will" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
