RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 8:07 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2018 at 8:08 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 23, 2018 at 8:05 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'm being a little bit lazy here, not having read 15 pages of undoubtedly brilliant philosophizing.
I'd define free will like this: It is the unfettered expression of the self in behavior.
This obviously cannot include variation in a given moment. You could not have made a different decision, because any decision other than the one you made would not have been a maximally perfect expression of the self.
Right. So it sounds like you accept compatabilism then.
I believe compatabilism is true, but I'm not a compatabilist because I think that the label "free will" in those cases is misleading at best and harmful at worst.
To put it simply, I demand more of free will.
And the label "free will" is the epitome of a loaded term, for me. We're better of without it.