(February 29, 2016 at 5:05 am)Alex K Wrote:(February 28, 2016 at 7:37 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Free will is the unfettered ability to act according to one's nature in a given circumstance.
That is one possible definition (the "compatibilist" one?) which however, imho, does not capture the moral and metaphysical ideas that are usually at stake when people talk of "free will". Free will is often thought to be some kind of magic sauce which is supposed to render our minds autonomous and independent of worldly influences.
I think by my definition you COULD be. You could, for example, be a particularly fearful person by nature. You would then express this fearfulness generally rather than specifically, and this tendency would be perceived by others as lacking will.
