Freedom is important because being a slave is stupid and ignoble. Also uncivilized and pathetic.
The degree of freedom a people has achieved for themselves in their society is the first and most important measure of the philosophical and moral value of their society relative to others. And no, I do not mean anarchy. Think more precisely about what freedom really means. What does it entail, what does it allow, what limits it, what are its more important, human meaningful ways of manifesting?
…then you begin to see exactly why the atheist, technocrat, post-human libtarded types are so anti-freedom in their ideologies and even in their automatic emotional and value-responses. Because they are, deep down, anti-human. Which means, even deeper down, they are anti-self. But who can really fix that?
Maybe a good therapist? But does a good “the rapist” even exist? I think a small percentage of them mean well and even try to do well. But how many within that group are really intelligent, philosophical and perceptive enough to DO good without also doing at least as much harm in other directions? Not many. I’ve exclusively seen the harm done, never the good that should be.
Best arguments against compatibilism?
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According to the 2020 PhilPapers survey, 59.2% of philosophers are compatibilists when it comes to the free will/determinism debate.
Okay, and of them how many were/are able to demonstrate not only why this is the case for all reasonable men and women, but how, in turn, they were/are then determined to become compatibilists but are still responsible for “choosing” that.
Despite its popularity among professional philosophers, what are the strongest criticisms/arguments against compatibilism levelled by incompatibilists? Please elaborate on the criticism/argument, and cite the philosopher(s) who made it, if possible.
Well, my own set of assumptions are no less derived from what I believe is true about compatibilism “in my head” “here and now”. Meaning, in other words, I am myself no more able to explain human autonomy “in reality” given The Gap and Rummy’s Rule. Let alone arguing that others should think about it as I do. Let alone actually demonstrating why.
I merely note how, in my view, no one else here seems able to move much beyond their own world of words philosophical assessments.
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Then the part where some insist that defining compatibilism as we do, we are no less defining it only as our brains compel us to. As though defining something was the philosophical equivalent of establishing its bona fides. Pin down the most logically and epistemologically sound grasp of compatibilism. Then come to places like this and insist that how you define it is the philosophical equivalent of the gold standard
And all of this can be “figured out” philosophically? Establish the correct definition and it can then be used to sustain the most rational meaning. Then, what, just assume that how you go about this in and of itself establishes its validity?
Right, like if we define compatibilism out of existence morally and politically, that’ll stop others from insisting hard determinism is the real deal.
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