Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Epicurus, Palle Yourgrau and Immanuel Kant
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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Free will is a kind of causality which works independently of other causes [Kant]
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Epicurus was the first to see the free will problem, and he was a libertarian [Epicurus, by Long/Sedley]
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We must assume an absolute causal spontaneity beginning from itself [Kant]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
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We shall never be able to comprehend how freedom is possible [Kant]
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Epicurus showed that the swerve can give free motion in the atoms [Epicurus, by Diogenes of Oen.]
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The manifest will in the world of phenomena has to conform to the laws of nature [Kant]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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There is no necessity to live with necessity [Epicurus]
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We must be free, because we can act against our strongest desires [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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If there is a first beginning, there can be other sequences initiated from nothing [Kant]
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We cannot conceive of reason as being externally controlled [Kant]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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Kant made the political will into a pure self-determined "free" will [Kant, by Marx/Engels]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity [Epicurus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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Sooner follow mythology, than accept the 'fate' of natural philosophers [Epicurus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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We should not refer things to irresponsible necessity, but either to fortune or to our own will [Epicurus]
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