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"Libertarian free will means that our choices are free from the determination or constraints of human nature and free from any predetermination by God. All "free will theists" hold that libertarian freedom is essential for moral responsibility, for if our choice is determined or caused by anything, including our own desires, they reason, it cannot properly be called a free choice. Libertarian freedom is, therefore, the freedom to act contrary to one's nature, predisposition and greatest desires. Responsibility, in this view, always means that one could have done otherwise. " http://www.theopedia.com/Libertarian_free_will

2006-09-21 19:04:58 · 2 answers · asked by Michael M 6 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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We would be in a state of consciousness where we would pay no attention to our sense of self -- being non-self-aware, permeating in the world of pure thoughts without aim nor paying any attention to sensory input. That sounds very much like a high on drugs...

If we should ever be free from all constrains, does that mean all our actions would not have any effect on other people since they are also free from all constrains? If that was the case, what moral would we need if no one could hurt anyone? We wouldn't even need to work, nor eat, nor sleep, nor procreate -- as if we were immortals.

Reality would be treated as if it did not exist -- just like a dimension we had no access to. The world would become like a ghost world -- a very strange place.

So to answer your question, correctness would have no meaning if we were free from any and all constrains.

2006-09-21 19:47:08 · answer #1 · answered by : ) 6 · 0 0

But then the nature becomes to act contrary to one's nature. This doesn't work I think. It's like the anarchy movement.
Any philosophy that creates a system out of a lack of a system contradicts itself.

2006-09-21 19:22:38 · answer #2 · answered by vampire_kitti 6 · 1 0

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