RE: Free will/evil/punishment
June 14, 2015 at 11:10 pm
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2015 at 11:11 pm by bennyboy.)
(June 14, 2015 at 10:00 pm)Nestor Wrote:(June 14, 2015 at 9:22 pm)bennyboy Wrote: This sounds like a kind of Dennett compatibilism. Am I gettnig you right?More or less, yeah.
It's kind of a weird semantic, still, isn't it? I mean, you're free to express yourself, but you are a product of your environment at every stage of your development. So basically, free will is just an absence of external influences-- but then what is one making a decision about? Isn't the sight of a donut sitting next to a chocolate bar or whatever essentially an external influence? Also, would hormones or hunger be considered internal or external influences?
