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Yes, Free Will Exists

3 pointsby logie17over 3 years ago

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pxcover 3 years ago
My recollection from some extracurricular study of Schopenhauer in college is that he <i>rejects</i> Kant&#x27;s metaphysical libertarianism. We can&#x27;t transport the self across the division between the phenomenal and the noumenal, so even if we can exert that free will exists, we don&#x27;t have epistemic grounds for meaningfully identifying ourselves with the thing in itself which we can assert has free will.<p>It&#x27;s been a long time, though. Maybe it&#x27;s time to reread and then pick up this book!<p>For those interested, the two source texts to consider in light of this book if you don&#x27;t want to dig too deep, Kant&#x27;s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics and Schopenhauer&#x27;s The World as Will and Representation are both public domain and relatively accessible&#x2F;clear for the subject matter.