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Free will/evil/punishment
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RE: Free will/evil/punishment
(June 14, 2015 at 9:22 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(June 14, 2015 at 9:08 pm)Nestor Wrote: Free will is not an illusion simply because human beings are subject to the laws of physics. Everything, including these discussions, including threats of punishment, including actual consequences inevitable or merely imposed by society, shapes our wills, by and through which we are free to act so long as the boundaries of a 'self'---however defined---are not coerced into action contrary to the will.

This sounds like a kind of Dennett compatibilism.  Am I gettnig you right?
More or less, yeah.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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Free will/evil/punishment - by ILuvGorillas - June 14, 2015 at 12:20 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 12:29 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Exian - June 14, 2015 at 12:37 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 1:37 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Thumpalumpacus - June 14, 2015 at 8:27 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 9:25 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Aroura - June 15, 2015 at 12:35 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 15, 2015 at 12:52 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Aroura - June 15, 2015 at 1:05 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by JuliaL - June 14, 2015 at 12:44 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Aroura - June 14, 2015 at 12:50 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 1:39 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by abaris - June 15, 2015 at 9:32 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by robvalue - June 14, 2015 at 2:40 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 4:32 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by robvalue - June 14, 2015 at 4:37 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 8:10 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by robvalue - June 14, 2015 at 8:27 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by henryp - June 14, 2015 at 10:34 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 7:51 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Aroura - June 14, 2015 at 8:21 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 9:19 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Aroura - June 14, 2015 at 11:06 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Aroura - June 14, 2015 at 11:23 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 11:59 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Aroura - June 15, 2015 at 12:23 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Thumpalumpacus - June 14, 2015 at 8:30 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Aroura - June 14, 2015 at 8:48 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Mudhammam - June 14, 2015 at 9:08 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 9:22 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Mudhammam - June 14, 2015 at 10:00 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 14, 2015 at 11:10 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Mudhammam - June 15, 2015 at 8:20 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 15, 2015 at 9:35 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Mudhammam - June 15, 2015 at 12:47 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 15, 2015 at 4:11 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Thumpalumpacus - June 15, 2015 at 12:19 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Aroura - June 14, 2015 at 11:27 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Aroura - June 15, 2015 at 12:49 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by robvalue - June 15, 2015 at 5:00 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by henryp - June 15, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 15, 2015 at 7:44 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by robvalue - June 15, 2015 at 9:00 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 15, 2015 at 10:31 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Mudhammam - June 15, 2015 at 12:54 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by robvalue - June 15, 2015 at 12:00 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by henryp - June 15, 2015 at 9:43 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 15, 2015 at 2:39 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Mudhammam - June 15, 2015 at 3:36 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 15, 2015 at 3:57 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Mudhammam - June 19, 2015 at 5:20 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 15, 2015 at 10:11 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by henryp - June 16, 2015 at 12:20 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 16, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by henryp - June 16, 2015 at 12:46 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 15, 2015 at 10:38 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 16, 2015 at 11:26 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 16, 2015 at 6:19 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 16, 2015 at 7:02 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 16, 2015 at 7:39 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 5:41 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Mudhammam - June 19, 2015 at 6:16 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 6:39 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 7:00 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Mudhammam - June 19, 2015 at 9:36 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by bennyboy - June 19, 2015 at 7:03 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by Mudhammam - June 19, 2015 at 9:46 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by henryp - June 21, 2015 at 10:35 am
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 19, 2015 at 10:20 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by popsthebuilder - June 21, 2015 at 6:03 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by The Grand Nudger - June 21, 2015 at 6:04 pm
RE: Free will/evil/punishment - by popsthebuilder - June 21, 2015 at 6:15 pm

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