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Single Idea 3791
[filed under theme 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
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Full Idea
The creature who is not only sensitive to patterns in its environment, but also sensitive to patterns in its own reactions to patterns in its environment, has taken a major step.
Gist of Idea
Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world
Source
Daniel C. Dennett (Elbow Room: varieties of free will [1984], §2.2)
Book Ref
Dennett,Daniel C.: 'Elbow Room - Free will worth wanting' [MIT 1999], p.29
The
20 ideas
with the same theme
[what makes free will in humans possible]:
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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