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LaDunn

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Explain R.B. Hobart's idea of wish-will-act.
 
  How does this affect our ability to choose our behavior?

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What are some of the factors that might affect a person's actions?
 
  Which philosophical viewpoint takes the position that these factors influence a person's ability to choose his or her actions?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 14, 2018
Answer to Question 1

- According to Hobart, free actions occur when the universal causal law is permitted to operate without interference: your wish for something translates into willing which becomes acting.
- Unfree actions occur when the necessary causal process is interfered with by outside factors of restraint or constraint.
- Freedom exists because, without other constraints, we could will one thing or a completely different thing.

Answer to Question 2

- External constraints include outside forces that limit human freedom, such as incarceration, threats, coercion, or physical circumstances beyond the individual's control.
- Internal constraints are limits on freedom that come from within the individual and could include mental illness, compulsions, obsessions, or uncontrolled anxiety.
- The goal of compatibilism is to find a common ground between hard determinism and indeterminism (or libertarianism),


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Reply #2 on: Jul 14, 2018
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Happy to help you


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