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?


- 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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a. True b. False

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What will be an ideal response?

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