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Single Idea 3655
[filed under theme 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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Full Idea
Hume's account of the causal relation makes determinism less rigid because there is no longer a logical necessity in the succession of events.
Gist of Idea
Hume makes determinism less rigid by removing the necessity from causation
Source
comment on David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], VIII.II.75) by Jennifer Trusted - Free Will and Responsibility Ch.4
Book Ref
Trusted,Jennifer: 'Free Will and Responsibility' [OUP 1984], p.34
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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