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Ideas for 'The Social Contract (tr Cress)', 'On the Moral and Legal State of Abortion' and 'A Tour through Mathematical Logic'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

7235	Without freedom of will actions lack moral significance [Rousseau]
	Full Idea: If you take away all freedom of the will, you strip a man's actions of all moral significance.
	From: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract (tr Cress) [1762], I.4)
	A reaction: Rousseau is (in the context) guilty of the basic error of confusing freedom of action with freedom of the will. If the will has scope to act, it has freedom of action; if the will is not contrained in its decision by prior causes, it has freedom of will.