Ueber den freien Willen oder die Willensfreiheit.

I can offhand think of no source of information
concerning free will other than my own consciousness.
And in that consciousness, I discover this term,
free will, which I don't use very often,
because I don't know what it means.
But which is obviously of some importance to others,
and from the context in which they use the term,
I can make some inferences concerning what 
they mean by free will,
and as I think about that
I distinguish some characteristics of free will
which may be sufficiently widespread 
to make them worth discussing.

When we speak of free will,
we imply that freedom should be a characteristic of the will.
The notion of an unfree will,
of a will which is bound, seems meaningless.
It is the nature of will to be free.