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Clutch · 02-28-2003, 05:34 PM

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most people wouldn't... believe their will is radically free, in that it does not desire any one specific thing--it's pure will; it only desires to do something. After that, it's a war of your appetites and your intellect--and your intellect doesn't in fact desire anything; it merely knows right from wrong.

This is what I deny. Most people have no views on radical versus plain old freedom, have no idea what "pure will" might be, do not have any robust account of appetites versus intellect. This confuses one highly ideological (and marginally coherent) spin on the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

Most people, I expect, don't have any more specific view than that they're free when they can do what they want, and when their doing what they do is a result of their having wanted to do it.

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