conation

With all due respect to conation, I split for Bond — James Bond — complete with a video clip of the incumbent spy, the actor Daniel Craig, being tortured.

That movement is the resultant of the spiritual potency after experiences in the form of cognition have marked out the path for conation.

The cognition is indirect, the conation is indirect, only the effect is immediate.

Volition, therefore, following McDougall, may be defined as the supporting or re-enforcing of a desire or conation by the cooperation of an impulse excited within the system of the self-regarding sentiment.

This conation is an inheritance; it is present in the form of dissatisfaction with the present situation; it moves in the direction of a goal which is marked out by intellect.