free will

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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is a concept relying on the erroneous notion of cause and effect whereby our will is erroneously taken as a 'cause' when any event could just as likely be taken instead as the unfettered assertion of wills from all sides.

The concept of free will also relies on the erroneous notions of cause and effect, which see our will as a 'cause.' Cause and effect are a part of a larger picture of physics, according to which nature is governed by laws. Nietzsche argues that this is a democrat's interpretation of nature: we could equally well see it as totally lawless, governed only by the unfettered assertion of wills. (nietzsche spark beyond )

is, according to Christians, ironic in that it suggests we have free will because the boss says so.

Free will is such that, ironically enough, we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

is problematic if two times two will be four even without my will. How can you call that man's free will'.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will' Fyodor Dostoevsky

 necessarily implies fate, just as spirit implies matter, and good implies evil.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil. Friedrich Nietzsche

is a thing man was somehow predestined to have.

is a thing we have no choice but to believe in.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice. Isaac Bashevis Singer

is a thing without which, man would be but a stop in an organ pipe.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe' Fyodor Dostoevsky

is a thing we have because we have no choice but to have it.

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