What did Wundt mean when he said that volitional acts are creative but not free?
Wundt has no faith in the free will. He was a determinist. According to him mental laws, who worked on the contents of the state of the consciousness are behind all the volitional acts. These mental laws are devoid of the consciousness. They are complex in nature. They are not knowable by various types of experiments as well as by introspection. These laws results into the lawful products.
These mental laws can be deduced by the psychological fact by the study, just like a historian. Future resultants determination cannot be done in advance. Volitional acts are the creative in nature they are not available as free. Volitional acts are the part of the cognitive power as they are created by the will power.
According to the psychology of the human behavior will is the important attribute of the human nature. Volitional acts required the consciousness for their generation as they are formed by the mental acts. Wundt viewed the mind and proposed that it is composed of the motivation, emotions and the volition upon maturation.