7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom

A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise the 8-week General Philosophy course and were delivered in late 2009 and 2010.

[@hldemi]

"Man can do what he wants but he cannot want what he wants" Arthur Schopenhauer said it perfectly .

[@TheFernseher09]

Humes had many valid points and could be considered the forerunner to Freud. All of our definitions and understanding are dependent upon the degree of the limitations we choose to set upon them. here, we are only talking about a certain degree of freedom, liberty, morality, self-determinism. Coercion is not only perpetrated by people or always of a negative nature, of course in a much broader sense we are all influenced by many unseen forces that are not necessarily intent on causing premeditated harm.

[@lane99]

I would not chose to let my family die rather than turn over a nuclear bomb to terrorists. My family comes first, always. Even if the rest of the world has to die. And I believe the professor is wrong in thinking most people would make a different choice than I would.

[@Rein9250dt]

determinism could be related to not rationally thinking about something, but doing something without worry of consequences.. blindly accepting something, without common sense or an ability to abtain knowledge about something... this could show a system of control,

[@Rein9250dt]

choice is an illusion of perception? or does free will Co exist with Determinism?