Acting ‘of One's Own Free Will’: New Perspectives on an Ancient Philosophical Problem

[@Eta_Carinae__]

It almost feels as if this treatment of the freedom of the will is the will in the sense of the manifest image, as opposed to the common treatment taken in the sense under the scientific image.

[@DJWESG1]

Having no real definition of what free will actually is or what it means to social beings trapped in relations with one another, maybe most ppl get their idea of free will from their ideal image of free will. A being free from all regulations, from red rape, from laws, from customs, from traditions and daily habits and routines. A being of this nature is a dangerous animal and not a social being in any respect.

[@1ntrcnnctr608]

thank u for thinking

[@ZYX84]

🌊🏄🏼‍♀️ i'm unaware… And I have never had control… But I know I'm not even assured of my… Next breath so enjoy the show people🪁

[@songconnection6945]

Child slavery in Congo cobalt mines. How low can we go¿?¿

[@chungchihsu2000]

Sartre, there's only dialectic reason.

[@thegroove2000]

Anyone who believes in God and the religion of government cannot really have free will.

[@DJWESG1]

I come from a more structural point of view. And although i know i have some degree of agency, i also know that i am confined by the structures in which i exist. Thus, 'truth' and what is 'real' becomes both more important and less important at the same time to different actors. What is real and not real, what is true and not true to someone who has total free will, 100% unstructured agency, that being, having had no influence from the stuctures and environent (laws rules) that bind and lock us all into our lives. That person is an extremist and his will is the unfreedom of everyone else.

[@thegroove2000]

@@DJWESG1 Have you taken the covid jabs?.

[@thegroove2000]

@@DJWESG1 Have you taken the covid jabs?.

[@IKnowNeonLights]

There is nothing, no thing, not thoughts or beings, matter or mass that is independent of an initial state. That is a fact. It is a physical fact. E mental fact A spiritual fact. A faith based fact. And scientific fact. The confusion arises from that of the initial state. As far as it concerns all of it! The initial state is not known, cannot be measured in any possible way. By having an unknown initial state, that gives rise to this type confusion. Although the actual initial state is not fully unknown, many properties are very well known, because we all are made of such properties. Still as far as it concerns all of it, the initial state remains very much unknown. That has to do with the fact that, what has no measure, cannot be given one as it would be stupid. Measures are only for what already has a measure. Let's focus again on the sentence, (Free will?) Think over the short sentence for a little bit more!.... It sounds like, something or someone is giving you something that you don't have (as in free) for you to do, which is something that you do have, (the will). (If that is not f ed up, than I would like to know you, and it seems not to be f ed up for a lot of people.) Do you want to know why? Because there is no god's. We have an initial unknown state, that we are made off and from, and we can call that what we desire, but we cannot have god's. If we begin to have god's, then we most certainly will have as many titans to destroy all of the gods. Too many words can do more harm when things are very simple. Let us then make it simple. In English there is a perfect sentence, perfectly suited and most likely purposely built for such a deep philosophical donkey talk. The sentence is this. (You believe on your own sh*t) Or (You have started to believe your own sh*t.) Etc etc It's meaning is very simple. One makes a sh*t, then begins to believe in it, pray, worship, meditate, measure, etc etc . After all it is there (the sh*t), and if enough power of a whatever measure is its backing then it will be a very powerful sh*t. But no matter the sh*t, it is not and never (Novel), free willed and new out of nothing, as if independent of all other sh*ts. Because there is no god's. (If an infinite amount of possibilities is not enough for anyone, but instead they need something specific, special and individual to them, then what is happening there is this!) They like to believe in their own sh*t.