Is it Just Fantasy?

Deliberation, meditation or fantasy? Fantasy deals with a mixture of possibilities and impossibilities both sane and insane people go there and there doesn't have to be a particular goal in mind. We meditate on what we hope to be possible; this involves more of an element of choice but not entirely. Deliberation occurs when we have settled on objectives and attempt to figure out how to accomplish them. Deliberation isn't a choice about the goal but how to go about achieving one that has already been made. The raw materials we use are experiences. Deliberation involves real things we feel we can effect to get to a goal.

Deliberation is about things in our power that we can do. We are at the mercy of everything else. Nature, need, chance and reason are things we can’t affect but are givens. So we deliberate on things our own efforts can change. There is little deliberation about things such as the alphabet and much more in the instance of writing a novel. Using deliberation, we push what we want the outcome to be but it doesn't always turn out how we want it since there are so many things we cannot affect that are involved. Sometimes we ask others to help us on important things because we might lack certain experiences and make the wrong choices along the way to our goal.

Deliberation is about the means after a choice has been made about the goal. A doctor doesn't deliberate on whether or not he wants to heal. An orator doesn't decide if he wants to persuade. A lawgiver doesn't deliberate on whether or not to make law. The goal is always assumed but they deliberate on how do go about it. They will look at available options and choose the one that is the easiest and the best. This process goes on until the goal is reached as the last thing in their order of thinking. All deliberation is investigation and there always is an object first and then the details to arrive at that conclusion or accomplish the goal. If something is impossible, we move on to something else. We will try to do what is realistic and avoid what we are convinced cannot be done. Things that are possible are also those things we can enlist the help of others. 

Sometimes we need equipment or some other way of bringing about our goal. Since all things attributed to a man involve actions, deliberation would be the things he initiates within himself. Actions are for something better than themselves. Deliberation is about how we go about getting to that better thing, but the means are not cut and dried. Everyone has their own way of going at things. Some people have perceptions as to how long something should be cooked for instance. Every person has to settle on the details of how they prefer things to be done to get to the goal; otherwise deliberation would go on infinitely.