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Full Idea
Can I even conceive of beings whose wills are freer than our own?
Gist of Idea
Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own?
Source
Daniel C. Dennett (Elbow Room: varieties of free will [1984], §7.3)
Book Ref
Dennett,Daniel C.: 'Elbow Room - Free will worth wanting' [MIT 1999], p.172
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |