Allen W. Wood Quotes About Free Will

Quotes about: Free Will

• I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist one. Unfortunately, from that it does not follow that there is such a solution. Many philosophers find this an unwelcome message, and as often happens in philosophy, they punish the messenger by ascribing to him an entirely imaginary but untenable position.

  Allen W. Wood

  Philosophy, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about the free will problem is that it is insoluble.

  Allen W. Wood

  Views, Order, Problem

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• Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.

  Allen W. Wood

  Substance, World, Causes

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

  Allen W. Wood

  Self, Determined, Free Will

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Law, Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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