what is free will?

Answer 1

One of our many gifts and blessings from God to make choices and influence our own lives.

Answer 2

Free will is exactly what it is the ability to give an answer or make a statement based on ones personal belief. Of free will.

Answer 3

The free will is that will which acts according to its choices for its self and its external concerns, free from extortion's of threat and the sabotage against its ability to independently assess and believe descriptions as true and/or false after applying its Judgment to the possibilities.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

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Free Will

As possibility is the mere inside of actuality, it is for that reason a mere outside actuality, in other words, Contingency. The contingent, roughly speaking, is what has the ground of its being not in itself but in somewhat else. Such is the aspect under which actuality first comes before consciousness, and which is often mistaken for actuality itself. But the contingent is only one side of the actual - the side namely, of reflection on somewhat else. It is the actual, in the signification of something merely possible. Accordingly we consider the contingent to be what may or may not be, what may be in one way or another, whose being or not-being, and whose being in this way or otherwise, depends not upon itself but on something else.

To overcome this contingency is, roughly speaking, the problem of science on the one hand; as in the range of practice, on the other, the end of action is to rise above the contingency of the will, or above caprice. It has however often happened, most of all in modern times, that contingency has been unwarrantably elevated, and has a value attached to it, both in nature and in the world of the mind, to which it has no just claim. Frequently, Nature, to take it first, has been chiefly admired for the richness and variety of its structures. Apart however from what disclosure it contains of the Idea, this richness gratifies none of the higher interests of Reason, and its vast variety of structures, organic and inorganic, affords us only the spectacle of a contingency losing itself in vagueness. At any rate, the chequered scene presented by the several varieties of animals and plants, conditioned as it is by outward circumstances - the complex changes in configuration and grouping of clouds, and the like - ought not to be ranked higher than the equally casual fancies of the mind which surrenders itself to its own caprices. The wonderment with which such phenomena are welcomed is a most abstract frame of mind, from which one should advance to a closer insight into the inner harmony and uniformity of nature. ......

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Answer 4

Free will is being able to decide for yourself. Choosing right from wrong. Doing what makes you happy.

Answer 5

will

we are caged
we are forgotten
to be lsot
is to be us
you decide our fate
you decide our life
why
why i ask
where is the free will?

Answer 6

Do as you like and wish.
Freedom is till it encroaches another's will.
It has limits.

Answer 7

Another way of saying "choice."

Answer 8

Yes and no
black and white
neg and pos....etc

Answer 9

not being married.