Term
Free will
used in 14 texts across the archive
“all the questions of “will” and “free will” generated by the alignment of a verb with a subject (he ran, she threw the ball, they danced, we refused to participate, etc.) can be approached in a completely different way by simply positing an imperative initiating these actions.”
In use
“The real question of free will refers to our responsibility for our acts, and the moral notion of responsibility, which derives fairly directly from the moral model instituted at the originary event, is itself a highly determining factor (what Freud called the superego ) in our behavior.”
“On the other hand, consciousness and free will are completely anomalous in our universe.”
“Saying that human consciousness and free will are a function of our unique cultural/social “nature” may well be true, but it doesn’t seem to answer the philosophical problem of how exactly this is possible.”
“But this is not an act of existential free will on the part of each member of the new community.”