RE: Is free will real?
December 21, 2014 at 1:07 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2014 at 1:09 am by bennyboy.)
(December 20, 2014 at 8:18 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: How can an action be praiseworthy if free-will was not involved?A car is praiseworthy because it functions excellently by the standards of the people using it, not because it has "really" chosen to do so. When a person behaves in a way which demonstrates a high level of function in the eyes of other people, that person is called praiseworthy.
Is the person responsible for his own high level of functionality? No. But he's still praiseworthy.
