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Free Will

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Free wi raises the question whether, and in what sense, ration agents exercise control ov their actions, decisions, choices. Addressing this question requires understanding the relati be freed and cause, and determining whe the laws of nature are causally deterministic. The various philosop positions taken differ on wheth all events are determined or not — determinism versus indeterminism — and also on whether freedom can coe with determinism or not — compa versus incompatibilism. So, for instance, 'hard determinists' are incompatibi who argue that the universe is deterministic, and that th makes fr will impossible. Libe are also incompatibilists. They believe that fr will exists and strict causal determinism is false. The problem is to reconcile free will wi cha or indeterminism, which threatens to make actions random. The principle of free wi has religious, ethical, and scientific implications. For example, in the religious realm, fr wi implies that an omnipotent divinity does not assert its power ov individual will and choices. In ethics, it implies that individua can be held morally acco for their actions. The quest of free will has been a ce issue since the beginn of philosophical thought.