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Single Idea 21053
[filed under theme 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
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Full Idea
Whatever conception of the freedom of the will one may form in terms of metaphysics, the will's manifestations in the world of phenomena, i.e. human actions, are determined in accordance with natural laws, as is every other natural event.
Gist of Idea
The manifest will in the world of phenomena has to conform to the laws of nature
Source
Immanuel Kant (Idea for a Universal History [1784], Intro)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Political Writings', ed/tr. Reiss,Hans [CUP 1996], p.41
A Reaction
So free will either requires total substance dualism, or it is best described as transcendental fictionalism. This seems to imply the Leibnizian idea that metaphysics contains facts which having nothing to do with the physical world.
The
20 ideas
with the same theme
[what makes free will in humans possible]:
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20922
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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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21671
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Voluntary motion is intrinsically within our power, and this power is its cause
[Carneades, by Cicero]
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5709
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The actions of the mind are not determinate and passive, because atoms can swerve
[Lucretius]
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23332
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Zeus gave me a nature which is free (like himself) from all compulsion
[Epictetus]
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5767
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Rational natures require free will, in order to have power of judgement
[Boethius]
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22131
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The will retains its power for opposites, even when it is acting
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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19922
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People are only free if they are guided entirely by reason
[Spinoza]
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23681
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The first motion or effect cannot be produced necessarily, so the First Cause must be a free agent
[Reid]
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3741
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We shall never be able to comprehend how freedom is possible
[Kant]
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21053
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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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23235
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I want independent control of the fundamental cause of my decisions
[Fichte]
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22040
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Freedom is produced by the activity of the mind, and is not intrinsically given
[Hegel]
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22075
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Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom
[Schelling]
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23111
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If we say that freedom depends on rationality, the irrational actions are not free
[Sidgwick]
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20323
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Freedom needs knowledge, the possibility of arbitrariness, and law
[Jaspers]
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23333
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The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity
[Frede,M]
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23334
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For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis)
[Frede,M]
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23337
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The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos
[Frede,M]
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3791
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Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world
[Dennett]
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3794
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Foreknowledge permits control
[Dennett]
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