What did Moritz Schlick mean when he said, "If decisions were causeless there would be no sense in trying to influence men ..."?
What role did this thought have in his theory of free will?
Schlick agrees with mainstream compatibilists that freedom means the opposite of compulsion: People are "free" if they do not act under compulsion, and they are compelled or "unfree" when they are inhibited from without in the realization of their natural desires.
- However, Schlick contends, the feeling of freedom does not say that under exactly the same inner and outer condition we could have willed something else.
- As a result, Schlick's views in this regard accord with determinism, which holds that all human actions are brought about by previous events in accordance with universal causal laws.
- "The feeling of responsibility assumes that I acted freely, that my desires impelled me."
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