Exercise of the faculty of willing The supposition that an act of volition is a necessary precondition for any voluntary action notoriously leads to an infinite regress in explaining the voluntary nature of the volition itself Recommended Reading: Peter Van Inwagen, An Essay on Free Will (Clarendon, 1983) {at Amazon com}; Thomas Pink, The Psychology of Freedom (Cambridge, 1996) {at Amazon com}; Experimental Slips and Human Error: Exploring the Architecture of Volition, ed by Bernard J Baars (Plenum, 1992) {at Amazon com}; and Richard Freadman, Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will (Chicago, 2001) {at Amazon com} Also see OCP, BGHT, and noesis
Your volition is the power you have to decide something for yourself. We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition = free will
If you do something of your own volition, you do it because you have decided for yourself that you will do it and not because someone else has told you to do it. Makin said Mr Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition. = voluntarily
or mental formation, or action, or conduct, or deed, usually done through the body, mouth or mind The Sanskrit word is Samskara
the act of making a choice; "followed my father of my own volition" the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith
the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith