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Full Idea
According to Hobbes, if we fully know what a man desires and believes, and we know the state of his physical stimuli, we may logically deduce what he will try to do. But Kant says no such statements can ever imply what a man will do.
Gist of Idea
For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs
Source
Roderick Chisholm (Human Freedom and the Self [1964], p.32)
Book Ref
'Free Will', ed/tr. Watson,Gary [OUP 1982], p.32
| 9268 | If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt on Chisholm] |
| 3442 | Responsibility seems to conflict with events being either caused or not caused [Chisholm] |
| 3443 | Desires may rule us, but are we responsible for our desires? [Chisholm] |
| 3444 | If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm] |
| 3445 | Causation among objects relates either events or states [Chisholm] |
| 3446 | For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs [Chisholm] |