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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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A human being fathers his own actions as he fathers his children [Aristotle]
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Aristotle never discusses free will [Aristotle, by MacIntyre]
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For an action to be 'free', it must be deliberate as well as unconstrained [Aristotle, by Leibniz]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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Chrysippus allows evil to say it is fated, or even that it is rational and natural [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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Aristotle assesses whether people are responsible, and if they are it was voluntary [Aristotle, by Zagzebski]
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A swerve in the atoms would be unnatural, like scales settling differently for no reason [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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Everything is fated, either by continuous causes or by a supreme rational principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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Chrysippus is wrong to believe in non-occurring future possibilities if he is a fatalist [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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The Lazy Argument responds to fate with 'why bother?', but the bothering is also fated [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
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Fate is an eternal and fixed chain of causal events [Chrysippus]
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When we say events are fated by antecedent causes, do we mean principal or auxiliary causes? [Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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Destiny is only a predisposing cause, not a sufficient cause [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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