Thursday, July 05, 2007

A Controversy

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, trans. E.F.J. Payne (New York: Dover Publications, 1969), 1:272:

[W]e shall not speak...of a "law for for freedom"...Generally we shall not speak of "ought" at all, for we speak in this way to children and to peoples still in their infancy, but not to those who have appropriated to themselves all the culture of a mature age. It is indeed a palpable contradiction to call the will free and yet to prescribe for it laws by which it is to will.

On the other hand:

cover of The Oxford Handbook of Free Will

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