The Kantian sense of causality, which is actually rules sequenced in time, is the empirical sense of it, and does not apply to his moral philosophy — Mww
on the one hand he thinks of himself as an intelligence endowed with a will, and consequently with causality, and when on the other he perceives himself as a phenomenon in the world of sense (as he really is also), and affirms that his causality is subject to external determination according to laws of nature....” — Mww
So, within the last 1800 years, there is a third causality, which is called freedom. — Mww
f free will is just not being determined, then every electron has free will. Are electrons morally responsible? — Pfhorrest
It's something about the particular way that our choices are determined that makes us morally responsible for them or not. — Pfhorrest
This is a common confusion with regard to quantum theory. Quantum theory sees all unobserved processes as fully deterministic. It's only when we stick our finger into a quantum system and perturb it in some unknown way that probability is invoked. — Dfpolis
It is rather that the acts we, as moral agents determine, are not determined prior to our choices. — Dfpolis
Wavefunctions evolve deterministically, but which classical state of that superposition we become entangled with is random from our perspectives. You only save determinism in quantum theory if you look at the superposition of all timelines of the universe: within any given timeline, inherently unpredictable things happen every time anything interacts with anything else. — Pfhorrest
any actualization of a potency by an agent is an instance of essential causality.
We can now see that free choices are not uncaused choices. They are the actualization of one of several possible courses of action by the moral agent. — Dfpolis
and so a species of essential causality. — Dfpolis
It's something about the particular way that our choices are determined that makes us morally responsible for them or not. — Pfhorrest
So how do we go about actualising a potential? Talk me through the neurological process. — Isaac
Another apriorist giving this dead horse yet another beating. — SophistiCat
You know...”on the one hand” as opposed to “on the other hand”? — Mww
Another apriorist giving this dead horse yet another beating. — SophistiCat
If you think otherwise, quote Kant defining essential causality under any name, or saying that it (...) is involved in moral agency. — Dfpolis
“....The will is a kind of causality belonging to living beings in so far as they are rational, and freedom would be this property of such causality that it can be efficient, independently of foreign causes determining it; just as physical necessity is the property that the causality of all irrational beings has of being determined to activity by the influence of foreign causes....” — Mww
“...Every rational being reckons himself qua intelligence as belonging to the world of understanding, and it is simply as an efficient cause belonging to that world that he calls his causality a will....” — Mww
So how do we go about actualising a potential? Talk me through the neurological process. — Isaac
In my paper "Mind or Randomness in Evolution" (Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (2010) XXII, 1/2, pp. 32-66 -- https://www.academia.edu/27797943/Mind_or_Randomness_in_Evolution). — Dfpolis
Philosophical naturalists claim macroevolution shows order emerging by pure chance.
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Damn! You couldn't make it one sentence in without regurgitating the patented creationist misrepresentation of evolution? — Kenosha Kid
Radin. I knew that he was a crackpot, but that was more from the way reasoned more than anything else. — SophistiCat
it's a religious propaganda thing. Obviously you're going to regurgitate creationist misrepresentations of evolution!!! :facepalm: — Kenosha Kid
My bad, I thought it was a proper journal, but:
The refereed Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, a major resource for college-level instruction, especially honors courses, builds on the classical paideia of educating the whole person. This educational endeavor aspires to restore Judeo-Christian ethical and intellectual foundations that all can cherish.
it's a religious propaganda thing. Obviously you're going to regurgitate creationist misrepresentations of evolution!!! :facepalm: — Kenosha Kid
Did you not read my refutation of the whole thing recently published in the Journal of Middle-Earth Studies? — Isaac
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