[MD] Free Will

[MarshaV]

On Jun 27, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote:

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> On 6/26/11 9:55 PM, "Ham Priday" <hampday1 at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> How can free will exist without an independent agent?
>> How can we be morally responsible if our values (and consequent actions) are
>> predetermined?
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>> Experiential existence hinges on autonomous value-sensibility.  It makes no
>> sense to argue for or against free will unless you acknowledge that choice
>> is the option of a free agent.
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>> Valuistically speaking,
>> Ham 
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> Hi Ham and all,
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> Pirsig proposes a metaphysics of DQ/SQ.  DQ is indefinable not unknowable.
> The independent agent is DQ/SQ.  There is something in our actions that
> enable the indefinable.  Free will enables action and an evolutionary
> scenario limits free will.  I can't jump on my horse and ride off in all
> directions!  Predetermination denies a DQ/SQ metaphysics.  I know the
> indefinable and can act on it through analogy and metaphor.
> 
> Joe  



Hi Joe,

You mentioned jumping on a horse and riding off in all directions, what type of 
pattern would that be?


Marsha 



 
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