PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mahatma Gandhi, Ad Hominem, Compatibilism
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I too am part of the natural world: why should my actions be exempt from this chain of universal causality, problem, what happens to moral responsibility, the argument: If determinism is true, then our actions are not in our control: to be morally responsible for actions, they must be in our control. If determinism is true, there is no such thing as moral responsibility: so, the problem of free will is a dilemma. We have 2 desiderata, neither of which seems compatible with the other: maintaining the belief that everything has a cause, that we are also free in our actions. Libertarianism: human beings are free when they can determine their own behavior (seems to question the principle of universal causality: compatibilism: free will and determinism can be reconciled once you understand free will in the correct way. What does the compatibilist solution consist of: w. t.