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The realization that free will is an illusion ideally allows compassion to develop in an individual. If a society shed its belief in free will, then it would ac
by nefitty 6y ago
The realization that free will is an illusion ideally allows compassion to develop in an individual. If a society shed its belief in free will, then it would act more compassionately, eg the opposite of barbaric.
- kazinator 6y agoThat's an interesting hypothesis you have there, but it seems rather self-evident to me that there are many philosophical pathways toward compassion, not necessarily involving specific theories of free will. Not all pathways are heavily intellectual.