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[from 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Immanuel Kant, in 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will ]

Full Idea

Because we must establish the necessity of a first beginning to make comprehensible an origin of the world, we are permitted to allow that in the course of the world different series may begin on their own as far as their causality is concerned.

Gist of Idea

If there is a first beginning, there can be other sequences initiated from nothing

Source

Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B478/A450)

Book Reference

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.486


A Reaction

This reinforces my firmly held view, that human free will is a bogus concept, which was invented in order place God above nature, and then ascribed to human beings because no other explanation of moral responsibility could be found.