22504 | Only a human being can be a starting point for an action [Aristotle] |
14516 | There is no necessity to live with necessity [Epicurus] |
20834 | Chrysippus allows evil to say it is fated, or even that it is rational and natural [Plutarch on Chrysippus] |
23338 | You can fetter my leg, but not even Zeus can control my power of choice [Epictetus] |
1856 | Nothing can be willed except what is good, but good is very varied, and so choices are unpredictable [Aquinas] |
1861 | The will is not compelled to move, even if pleasant things are set before it [Aquinas] |
1862 | However habituated you are, given time to ponder you can go against a habit [Aquinas] |
1853 | Because the will moves by examining alternatives, it doesn't compel itself to will [Aquinas] |
1849 | Since will is a reasoning power, it can entertain opposites, so it is not compelled to embrace one of them [Aquinas] |
2282 | My capacity to make choices with my free will extends as far as any faculty ever could [Descartes] |
4310 | We have inner awareness of our freedom [Descartes] |
23668 | Our own nature attributes free determinations to our own will [Reid] |
23680 | We are morally free, because we experience it, we are accountable, and we pursue projects [Reid] |
9756 | We must be free, because we can act against our strongest desires [Kant, by Korsgaard] |
5597 | If there is a first beginning, there can be other sequences initiated from nothing [Kant] |
3740 | We cannot conceive of reason as being externally controlled [Kant] |
21965 | Spinoza could not actually believe his determinism, because living requires free will [Fichte] |
20322 | I am aware that freedom is possible, and the freedom is not in theory, but in seeking freedom [Jaspers] |
3444 | If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm] |
3808 | Rational decision making presupposes free will [Searle] |
3817 | Free will is most obvious when we choose between several reasons for an action [Searle] |
3818 | We freely decide whether to make a reason for action effective [Searle] |