(March 19, 2022 at 12:01 pm)Istvan Wrote:(March 19, 2022 at 11:36 am)Ahriman Wrote: Yeah, this is true. Not everyone's free will is the same.No one disputes that people's circumstances and abilities differ, or that human power is subject to various constraints. The existentialists spent a lot of time talking about facticity, which is how they conceptualized the physical and cultural contexts of human endeavor. Simone De Beauvoir wrote:
However, man does not create the world. He succeeds in disclosing it only through the resistance which the world opposes to him. The will is defined only by raising obstacles, and by the contingency of facticity certain obstacles let themselves be conquered, and others do not.
What you do with what the world does to you, in other words, is what defines you.
Completely missed the point. Oh well.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.