5118 | Anaxagoras says mind remains pure, and so is not affected by what it changes [Anaxagoras, by Aristotle] |
8007 | Aristotle never discusses free will [Aristotle, by MacIntyre] |
12961 | For an action to be 'free', it must be deliberate as well as unconstrained [Aristotle, by Leibniz] |
4118 | A human being fathers his own actions as he fathers his children [Aristotle] |
6018 | Epicurus was the first to see the free will problem, and he was a libertarian [Epicurus, by Long/Sedley] |
23329 | We make progress when we improve and naturalise our choices, asserting their freedom [Epictetus] |
23342 | Freedom is acting by choice, with no constraint possible [Epictetus] |
23330 | Freedom is making all things happen by choice, without constraint [Epictetus] |
5771 | Knowledge of present events doesn't make them necessary, so future events are no different [Boethius] |
22111 | Aquinas attributes freedom to decisions and judgements, and not to the will alone [Aquinas, by Kretzmann/Stump] |
2283 | Our 'will' just consists of the feeling that when we are motivated to do something, there are no external pressures [Descartes] |
5010 | Our free will is so self-evident to us that it must be a basic innate idea [Descartes] |
4814 | A thing is free if it acts by necessity of its own nature, and the act is determined by itself alone [Spinoza] |
3792 | We are free to decide not to follow our desires [Locke] |
5023 | Future contingent events are certain, because God foresees them, but that doesn't make them necessary [Leibniz] |
3447 | All theory is against free will, and all experience is in favour of it [Johnson,S] |
5596 | We must assume an absolute causal spontaneity beginning from itself [Kant] |
3739 | Free will is a kind of causality which works independently of other causes [Kant] |
23237 | The capacity for freedom is above the laws of nature, with its own power of purpose and will [Fichte] |
23244 | Forming purposes is absolutely free, and produces something from nothing [Fichte] |
21780 | A free will primarily wills its own freedoom [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
3846 | Man IS freedom [Sartre] |
9249 | Whether we are free is uninteresting; we can only experience our freedom [Camus] |
9267 | Free will is the capacity to choose what sort of will you have [Frankfurt] |
3292 | The most difficult problem of free will is saying what the problem is [Nagel] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
2545 | Free will is mental causation in action [McGinn] |
5338 | Normal free will claims control of what I do, but a stronger view claims control of thought and feeling [Flanagan] |
5344 | Free will is held to give us a whole list of desirable capacities for living [Flanagan] |