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Single Idea 1837
[filed under theme 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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Full Idea
The best men have no belief in necessity (set up by some as mistress of all), but refer some things to fortune, some to ourselves, because necessity is irresponsible, and fortune is unstable, while our own will is free.
Gist of Idea
We should not refer things to irresponsible necessity, but either to fortune or to our own will
Source
Epicurus (Letter to Menoeceus [c.291 BCE], 133), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.27
Book Ref
Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.472
The
12 ideas
with the same theme
[free will is possible in a deterministic worlc]:
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1837
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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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5971
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Destiny is only a predisposing cause, not a sufficient cause
[Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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6214
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Liberty and necessity are consistent, as when water freely flows, by necessity
[Hobbes]
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12492
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Liberty is a power of agents, so can't be an attribute of wills
[Locke]
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12493
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A man is free insofar as he can act according to his own preferences
[Locke]
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19368
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The will determines action, by what is seen as good, but it does not necessitate it
[Leibniz]
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5031
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Everything which happens is not necessary, but is certain after God chooses this universe
[Leibniz]
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2223
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Liberty is merely acting according to the will, which anyone can do if they are not in chains
[Hume]
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3655
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Hume makes determinism less rigid by removing the necessity from causation
[Trusted on Hume]
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15617
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In abstraction, beyond finitude, freedom and necessity must exist together
[Hegel]
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6981
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Determinism clashes with free will, as the past determines action, and is beyond our control
[Inwagen, by Jackson]
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6149
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Free will and determinism are incompatible, since determinism destroys human choice
[Merricks]
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