According to Buridan, humanity is still enslaved of being indecisive. He uses the example of an ass (donkey) to demonstrate the indecisiveness of humanity. As stated in Roca and Schuh,” if a donkey who is rational was placed between two hay stacks of equal size and quality, would starve to death because it could not make a rational decision to start eating one bale of hay rather that the other” (120).
Spinoza echoed Buridan’s description of humanity regarding free will. He added, as humans, we are alike as a donkey, without some internal and external influence upon us, we, like a donkey, and would starve to death since our free will is not sufficient for us to produce an action” (120). Once we have the general understanding of the process