Descriptive
Free without being able to do otherwise?
On the axis: Freedom of the will · an act
Even if I could not have done otherwise, am I free when my act springs from my own desires and reasons, with nothing forcing me against myself?
Philosophers' positions
Major
+0.5
Compatibilism
Justification
Hume proposes a reconciliation (the reconciling project) between liberty and necessity: liberty is not the absence of causes, but the power to act according to the determinations of one's will, free from external constraint. The of human actions is even required for moral responsibility, since it is character that accounts for acts: classical .
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, sect. VIII (of liberty and necessity) · A Treatise of Human Nature, II, part III, sect. 1-2
Anchors: Hume · Frankfurt · Fischer