CONFLICTING POSITIONS ON FREE WILL

Determinism (Holbach)
Compatibilism (Ayer)
Libertarianism (Kane)

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1. Universal determinism: nothing, including our own decisions to act, happens unless something determines it to happen. Determinism
Compatibilism
Libertarianism
2. For an act to be a free act, one for which an agent can be held morally responsible, nothing can have determined the agent to choose the act. Determinism
Libertarianism
Compatibilism
3. There is free will, hence moral responsibility. Compatibilism
Libertarianism
Determinism

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