Ihmisen Tahdon Vapaudesta by Arthur Schopenhauer
The work argues that what people commonly call free will is an illusion: human actions are determined by a character shaped by temperament and past causes together with the immediate motives that present themselves, so that choices follow causal laws rather than metaphysical spontaneity; true metaphysical freedom, considered as independence from causality, is not manifested in empirical action (though the will as thing-in-itself can be conceived as free), and what we properly call freedom is merely the absence of external coercion—implications of this view are traced through responsibility, moral judgment and punishment, all of which rest on predictable causal connections between character, motive and deed.
- Published
- 1839
- Nationality
- German
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- Unknown
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- Original Language
- German
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- Ihmisen tahdon vapaudesta
- On the Freedom of the Will
- Über die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens
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