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Free Will & Responsibility. Get a hint. Robert Kane. Click the card to flip 👆. advocates for "libertarian freedom" position on free will (event-causal libertarian) position grounded in the notion of Ultimate Responsibility.
nwagen and other incompatibilists claim. The Consequence Argument would show that determinism conflicts with anyone’s power to do oth. rw. se and thus conflicts with free will.3. An Objec. ion Concerning “Can” and “Power”The Consequence Argument is a powerful argument for the incompatibil-ity of free will and det.
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Drawing on Aristotle’s notion of “ultimate responsibility,” Robert Kane argues that to be exercising a free will an agent must have taken some character forming decisions for which there were no sufficient conditions or decisive reasons.
- Robert Francis Allen
- 2005
Since his earliest book, Free Will and Values (1985), Kane has focused on free choices that have moral or prudential significance, as as well as those with m...
- 60 min
- 1769
- infophilosopher
By ultimate responsibility Kane means that the sources or origins of our actions lie "in us" rather than in something else (such as decrees of fate, foreordained acts of God, or antecedent causes and laws of nature) which are outside us and beyond our control.
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– freedom of the will: “being your own person,” with control over your desires, in a sense that gives you ultimate responsibility for what you do. In later chapters, Kane will argue that some accounts capture only surface freedom(s), or what he calls freedom of action, in contrast to free will.
