Yeah, well, I think he and Einstein are wrong. Or, speaking as a compatibilist, we are free to act on our determined motives, as well as to learn from experience and alter our motives for better outcomes in the future.^Spinoza's point is that a conscious being's actions are every bit as determined as those of an unconscious being. As he states, "the soul acts according to fixed laws, and is as it were an immaterial automaton."
Ugh, it's no fair you being so much better a writer than me, and thus so much better able to encode the idea accessibly!Yeah, well, I think he and Einstein are wrong. Or, speaking as a compatibilist, we are free to act on our determined motives, as well as to learn from experience and alter our motives for better outcomes in the future.^Spinoza's point is that a conscious being's actions are every bit as determined as those of an unconscious being. As he states, "the soul acts according to fixed laws, and is as it were an immaterial automaton."
The determinist disagrees. As Waton puts it, "Our mind no more determines its thoughts and ideas than our body determines its actions; all are determined by existence."Yeah, well, I think he and Einstein are wrong. Or, speaking as a compatibilist, we are free to act on our determined motives, as well as to learn from experience and alter our motives for better outcomes in the future.^Spinoza's point is that a conscious being's actions are every bit as determined as those of an unconscious being. As he states, "the soul acts according to fixed laws, and is as it were an immaterial automaton."
The HARD determinist disagrees. The SOFT determinist is called a compatibilist.The determinist disagrees. As Waton puts it, "Our mind no more determines its thoughts and ideas than our body determines its actions; all are determined by existence."Yeah, well, I think he and Einstein are wrong. Or, speaking as a compatibilist, we are free to act on our determined motives, as well as to learn from experience and alter our motives for better outcomes in the future.^Spinoza's point is that a conscious being's actions are every bit as determined as those of an unconscious being. As he states, "the soul acts according to fixed laws, and is as it were an immaterial automaton."
Well, much like Tinkerbell, I think every compatibilist will generally accept your decision to disregard your ability to create degrees of freedom such that in that disregard you might as well not have that ability at all.Peter Pan wants to believe in the magic freedom pixie dust.
And Spinoza happens to be one of your favorite philosophers! How... convenient. Oh yeah and Kabbalah bullshit. You had to throw that in there, lmao.The Fetishism of liberty / Harry Waton.
This book examines the notion of free will from a determinist position. Waton was an expositor of Spinoza. Spinoza famously opined that if a rock in motion were conscious, it would believe its motion to be free, and that this is same as most people's understanding of their own actions as free.
You clearly have not read my position on free will, which I have already posted. But whatever, it's not like it's going to make a difference because you're incapable of understanding anything that's not in line with your particular favorite philosophers' views. What a pathetic and close-minded way to live!The secularist priesthood clinging to its primitive superstitions regarding free will. Pathetic.
The secularist priesthood clinging to its primitive superstitions regarding free will. Pathetic.
No, you gave the medieval equivalent to "just watch these YouTube videos, man!"^Nah, I've indicated what I think you should read. Go ahead, keep running cycles on your hamster wheels.
When a superior man hears of the Tao,
Guess what? All religions say the same thing about their religion. You think this means anything?When a superior man hears of the Tao,
he immediately begins to embody it.
When an average man hears of the Tao,
he half believes it, half doubts it.
When a foolish man hears of the Tao,
he laughs out loud.
If he didn't laugh,
it wouldn't be the Tao.