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In any case the classical definition of free will has been solved. What is the classical definition and how has it been solved, in case it is not obvious from
by danbruc 8y ago
In any case the classical definition of free will has been solved.
What is the classical definition and how has it been solved, in case it is not obvious from the definition? Or, in case it takes to much text to answer that, who proposed the classical definition or who wrote a good book on it? I did not put a huge amount of effort into this topic but at least quite a bit, but I am still puzzled what a common, the most common, or a classical understanding of free will is.
- nabla9 8y agoThe Aristotle's definition and others like it. For Aristotle there was three causes for things: chance, necessity, chance, a third thing (the agent-causality) or "up to us". In the Nicomachean Ethics virtue and vice are "up to us". We have desires and we deliberate and make voluntary choice. What is left unsaid because it was self evident at the time was that there was something called soul or person separate from the environment. In the modern sense "up to us" is not same level ultimate origination concept as change and necessity.