... faculty of will that as an object causes bodily movements, then we must think that person possesses a kind of unique causal power." 1 That is, is there a sort of desire or wish? However there is the problem of whether volition is an active state in the mind or whether it is a mental state, like a thought , that just comes to one. Moore puts it as "Volitions are simply the last executors both of our more general intentions and of the background states of desire and belief that those more general intentions themselves execute." 2 . This does not consider the connections between the object of the volitions and the mind. Moore also points out the various ways of looking at these connections and intent. The arguments against the existence of volitions is strong and the question as to whether they exist or not is not answered. ...

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