Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous.
- adjective See under
Baptist .
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Examples
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'As for _free-will_, we comprehend a certain kind of free-will in the more intelligent animals; and, on the other hand, we may add, that perhaps man is not so free as he would fain persuade himself he is.'
Public School Education Michael M��ller 1862
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There are two teachings in this famous idea: one is that we are born with free-will, born with the capacity to choose between right and wrong.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Joy Comes in the Morning (And so should sensible gun control) Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater 2011
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Jesus was about free-will, but your also loopy if you think that at the end of everything, there isn't this form of sanction.
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In privileging the viability of a ball of cells (which arguably has no volition or free will of its own) over the viability of a real live woman, you are quite explicitly devaluing not only the physical woman (who, in your view, is subsumed into the function of her womb) but also her own free-will into the will of your (presumably male) idea of what she should do with her body.
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No man in the industrial machine is a free-will agent, except the large capitalist, and he isn't, if you'll pardon the Irishism. 2 You see, the masters are quite sure that they are right in what they are doing.
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Each day, we all face choices, we all faces options, we all employ our free-will, and by living with integrity, honesty, humility and faith, we can each make use of that free-will to make a difference for good in this world.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Joy Comes in the Morning (And so should sensible gun control) Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater 2011
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Another good paper on criminal responsibility, this time from a libertarian perspective, is Kinsella and Tinsley's Causation and Aggression, though it seems to assume free-will (or "agent-causation") and reject mechanistic explanations.
Neuroscience: Don't Be Intimidated, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Each day, we all face choices, we all faces options, we all employ our free-will, and by living with integrity, honesty, humility and faith, we can each make use of that free-will to make a difference for good in this world.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Joy Comes in the Morning (And so should sensible gun control) Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater 2011
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I share Caplan's rather Szaszian tendencies, but I also found Greene & Cohen's For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything (which argues against non-political "libertarian free-will" and toward determinism or at least compatibilism) rather persuasive.
Neuroscience: Don't Be Intimidated, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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There are two teachings in this famous idea: one is that we are born with free-will, born with the capacity to choose between right and wrong.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Joy Comes in the Morning (And so should sensible gun control) Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater 2011
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