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Is Effort of Will a Basis for Moral Freedom?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John Howie
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Extract

To discover whether effort of will may be a basis for moral freedom we need to have before us a general description of the experiential situation in which an effort of will is found. The description need not be exhaustive, but it must be such as to permit us to identify situations in which an effort of will is to be found.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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References

page 345 note 1 Campbell, C. A., In Defence of Free Will (London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1967), pp. 56–7, 68–9.Google Scholar

page 346 note 1 Hampshire, Stuart, Freedom of the Individual (New York: Harper & Row, 1969).Google Scholar

page 346 note 2 Ibid., p. 29.

page 346 note 3 Ibid., pp. 16–17.

page 347 note 1 Wisdom, , Problems of Mind and MatterGoogle Scholar; Stout, G. F., Manual of Psychology.Google Scholar