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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... THE TWELFTH QUESTION What difference does a belief in free will make in our daily life? Smith. Mr. Lawes is a sensible man and he has led us for the first time to the root of the matter: what difference would it make to us if free will were true? You have told us, Freeman, that free will cannot be disproved, and, frankly, we don't seem to have done so to your satisfaction. You have said that free will may be true and presented arguments to show its plausibility, although (again frankly) you do not seem to have convinced any of us. You have said that although free will looks like a small thing, it may have important effects. But you have not told us what difference its being true would make, nor what difference it would make to us whether we believed in it or not. You have just admitted that freedom is an empty question in a court of law. Well, where else, then, would it be important? What could you do with the notion of freedom in a laboratory? What science would find a use for the belief? Could you use the notion to advantage in a schoolroom? I don't see that you would bring up a child any differently from believing the doctrine of free will, since, as you pointed out, we can't predict the future of any individual in any case. Just how would a freewillist's history differ from a determinist's? You couldn't use it to explain any particular event, since there appears, on your admission, to be no touch-stone to tell a determined act from a chance one. How does one regulate one's domestic life any differently by this belief? What do you do with it at the polls? Does it play any part in war, finance, housekeeping, literature, art, bootblacking, burglary, medicine, fishing or what? Have any of us ever done anything as a result of thinking that what we were abo...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781459026278
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 20
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459026276
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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