How do you understand human freedom and moral responsibility? Explain.
Here is an argument for the existence of freedom of the will:
(1) If humans have genuine moral responsibility for an act, then this requires that they freely perform that act (i.e. that they instantiate agent causation).
(2) Humans have genuine moral responsibility for at least some of their actions.
(C) Humans freely perform some actions.
This might appear to be an oversimplification, and in many ways it is. You can find this argument or something very similar to it in many introductory philosophy texts. Moreover, philosophers have written entire books on particular aspects of the debate. My aim here is to show that if there is such a thing as genuine moral responsibility, then this requires that there be such a thing as agent causation, or libertarian freedom of the will. And since I believe so strongly that there is such a thing as genuine moral responsibility, that is, I believe that (2) is true, then I take it that genuine freedom of the will exists as well.
But what about premise 1? Consider the following thought experiment in favor of (1). Imagine Fred wakes up today and decides that he is
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