English Dictionary

free will

名詞

不可算名詞

A person's natural inclination; unforced choice / (philosophy) The ability to choose one's actions, or determine what reasons are acceptable motivation for actions, without predestination, fate etc.

日本語の意味

その人の本来の傾向、つまり無理強いされない自由な選択性 / （哲学）運命や予定説に左右されることなく、自らの行動を選択し、どの理由が行動の正当な動機として受け入れられるかを決定する能力

Despite her family's expectations, she followed her free will and became a painter.

家族の期待にもかかわらず、彼女は自分の自然な傾向に従って画家になった。

意味（1）

A person's natural inclination; unforced choice

I say therefore, there is no likelyhood, we should imagine, the beasts doe the very same things by a naturall inclination and forced genuitie, which we doe of our owne freewil and industrie.

意味（2）

(philosophy) The ability to choose one's actions, or determine what reasons are acceptable motivation for actions, without predestination, fate etc.

What is free will but the power of volition and action, and of thought and speech, to all appearance as of one's self?