PHL105Y5 Lecture 25: 01 Free Will
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Definition 1: doing what one wants to do. A person s acts freely if and only if s does what s wants or chooses to do. Iow, a voluntary action is a free action. A person s acts freely if and only if at the time that s acts, it is in s"s power to do otherwise. According to defn 2, to say that a person did something of his own free will, or that the person acted freely, is to say that: It was in the person"s power to do something other than what he or she did. There was an alternative open to the person. To be responsible for some action is to deserve. Praise, credit, or reward if the action was good. Blame, censure, or punishment if the action was bad. The agent didn"t know what he was doing. The agent didn"t intend to perform the action intentional action recklessness negligence blameless inadvertence.
