[smitty1e]

I don't find it contradictory to subscribe to both an individual Destiny and an "universal scope" Destiny of which the individual Destiny is a component.

This Destiny is in tension with Free Will (in my telling).

In retirement, my hope is to produce a lengthy, pretentious exploration of a few ideas that will doubtless help someone's insomnia.

[card_zero]

Right, but any identification of the Ultimate Purpose is going to be a very vague bad guess. I kind of like "to learn", but besides that I tend to keep returning to a string bag of mixed values that won't boil down to anything neat.

[smitty1e]

The reason I don't think Destiny can amount to more than a "very vague bad guess" as an intellectual matter is that such a solution would tamper with Free Will.

[card_zero]

So, how does this outlook work? What's free will (or Free Will)?

[smitty1e]

What I will argue is something like Plato's Tripartite Soul[1] with the proviso that these are orthogonal dimensions.

Free Will, in this telling, exists on the logos/eros plane of the individual.

Destiny is some target on the plane out there at infinity toward which one navigates over time.

The origin of this coordinate system is the heart, and one may or may not hold a connection to the Creator via the thymos.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_theory_of_soul