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- From: solan@smauguio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg)
- Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
- Subject: Free Will and Morality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.124350.21109@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 12:43:50 GMT
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- As Holmes has so eloquently pointed out, it is from the
- point our will is made up, that our responsibility starts,
- and it is independent of what made our will be what it is.
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- Our will is our self-expression no matter whether we are
- caused ourselves or not. I therefore find it better to
- speak of, with Stirner, Own Will instead of Free Will.
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- There has been some discussion of "moral agents", and whether
- these are dependant on having a Free Will or not. The
- discussion has managed very well to steer clear of the
- central question: "What is morality?"
-
- I propose, again with my favourite philosopher Stirner, that
- we drop all illusions about morality as something existing
- apart from our own bringing it into the world. We might as
- well dissolve the idea of Morality when it no longer is what
- we want.
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- When we still retain Morality, it must be because we find
- some reason to let it continue its existence. Bu
-