Re: A Refutation of Determinism
You are born into life, and immediately breathe "air". So much for "free will": how is it that we are related in "free will" to our earthly state?
The difficulty is that in static thought it looks at "freedom" and "free will" as a present end state without mobility.
Another approach could be; does mankind display evidence of a "freer(?) will" in an evolutionary sense? Is this "freedom of will" the evolutionary work of man?
Man walks the earth and in the determinist sense he is "not free". I believe it was Spinosa who likened Man to a thrown rock who thinks he is free.
So what is this "free will" we talk about?
carlo
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