CONFLICTING POSITIONS ON FREE WILL

Determinism (Holbach)
Compatibilism (Ayer)
Libertarianism (Campbell)

1. Universal causality -- nothing, including our own decisions to act, happens unless something causes it to happen.

YES NO
Determinism Libertarianism
Compatibilism

2. For an act to be a free act, one for which an agent can be held morally responsible, nothing can have caused the agent to choose the act.

YES NO
Determinism Compatibilism
Libertarianism

3. There is free will, hence moral responsibility.
YES NO
Compatibilism Determinism
Libertarianism


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