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Free Will
Introduction of a Wikipedia article. Complete article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will
Free will
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the question whether, and in what sense, rational agents
exerc
control
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their actions, decisions, choices. Addressing this question requires understanding the relationship between freedom and cause, and determining whether the laws of
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are causally deterministic. The various philosophical positions
ta
differ on whether all
even
are determined or not — determinism
ve
indeterminism — and also on whether
fre
can
coex
with determinism or not — compatibilism versus incompatibilism. So, for instance, 'hard determinists' are
incompati
who
ar
that the universe is deterministic, and
th
this makes free
wi
impossible. Libertarians are also incompatibilists.
Th
be
that
fr
will exists and strict causal determinism is false.
The
prob
is to reconcile free will with chance or indeterminism,
wh
threat
to
ma
actions random. The principle of
fr
wi
has religious, ethical, and scientific implications. For example, in the
re
realm, free will implies
th
an
omnipote
divi
does not
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its power over individual will and choices. In ethics, it implies that individuals can be held morally
acco
for their actions. The question of
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will has been a
cen
issue since the
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of philosophical thought.
