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Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically inconsistent.
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It states that free will, in the sense required for moral responsibility, is consistent with universal causal determinism.
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Compatibilists identify free will with freedom of action - the lack of external constraints.
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Hobbes famously said that man was as free as an unimpeded river.
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Compatibilism is the thesis that free will is compatible with determinism. Because free will is typically taken to be a necessary condition of moral responsibility, compatibilism is sometimes expressed as a thesis about the compatibility between moral responsibility and determinism.
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Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically inconsistent.
Compatibilism - Wikipedia
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Comppatibilism is a philosophical concept that states that free will, in the sense required for moral responsibility, is consistent with universal causal determinism. It is important to distinguish the question of the logical consistency of belief in universal causal determinism with belief in free will from the question whether the thesis of free will (or that of causal determinism) is true. Among incompatibilists, some maintain the existence of free will and accordingly deny universal causal determinism, while others uphold universal causal determinism and deny the existence of free will.
Compatibilism | philosophical concept | Britannica
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Compatibilism is the theory that we can be both caused and free. It is advocated by many modern philosophers, including the prolific and influential Daniel Dennett. But compatibilism is nothing new.
Hobbes famously said that man was as free as an unimpeded river.
Compatibilism | Issue 62 | Philosophy Now
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Compatibilists (or "soft determinists" as they have been known since William James ) identify free will with freedom of action - the lack of external constraints. We are free, and we have free will, if we are not in physical chains. But freedom of the will is different from freedom of action.
Compatibilism - The Information Philosopher
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Soft determinism (or compatibilism ) is the position or view that causal determinism is true, but we still act as free, morally responsible agents when, in the absence of external…
Compatibilism - Queensborough Community College
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Compatibilism, sometimes called soft determinism, is a theological term that deals with the topics of free will and predestination. It seeks to show that God's exhaustive sovereignty is compatible with…
Compatibilism | Theopedia
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Compatibilism is an attempt to reconcile the theological proposition that every event is causally determined, ordained, and/or decreed by God (i.e., determinism, not to be confused with fatalism )—with the…
What is compatibilism? | GotQuestions.org
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