Lakoff and Johnson make the striking claim that the notion of free will is implicated in the traditional disembodied conception of reason: “Will is the application of reason to action.  Because human reason is disembodied – that is, free of the constraints of the body – will is radically free.  Thus, will can override the bodily influence of desires, feelings, and emotions.”
Does this work in reverse? Â Does denial of radically free will, as it occurs in Augustinian theology, imply an affirmation of embodiedness? Â Does it create pressure toward a notion of embodied (impassioned, desiring, emotional) reason? Â There seems some support for this, especially in Augustine, with his strong notion that we are what we desire.