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The paper examines Suárez’s voluntarist perspective on the will and its relationship to intellectual judgment and causation.

April 16, 2026PhilosophyOpen Access

Suárez on the Will as a Two-Way Power

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The paper examines Suárez’s voluntarist perspective on the will and its relationship to intellectual judgment and causation.
Analyzed Suárez’s arguments against intellectual determinism.
Explored the distinction between efficient cause and final cause in relation to the will.
Discussed the concept of normative attraction and its implications for freedom.
Demonstrated that the intellect cannot impose decisions on the will.
Showed that the final cause influences the will's attraction based on the goodness of the goal.
Argued that true freedom arises from the ability of the will to reject normative influences.

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Philosophical analysis explores will's freedom in decision-making, emphasizing its resistance to normative attraction.

Dominik Perler (2025) studied this question.

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