Libertarianist View Of Freewill

Suppose there is a wallet full of cash that you happen to find on the ground. You look inside the wallet and see cash, Identification cards, and some credit cards. Based on the identification cards, you notice that the wallet belongs to your professor. Now you are faced with a decision whether to return the paper or not. Moral responsibility is the status of deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for one’s obligations. Freewill is the human capability to make choices that are not determined by external factors. Determinism is the view that every event has a cause. Indeterminism believes some events are uncaused. In this paper I am going I am going to talk about three different views on freewill. I am going to argue that people are not …show more content…
Campbell’s article “Has the Self Will?” explains the libertarianism approach. Firstly, there are three conditions that need to be met for there to be freewill. There needs to be an inner actor choice, there should be a sole author, and there must have been a possibility to choose otherwise. Campbell believes freewill occurs only when one is called upon to make a moral effort. In a morale decision, there is a struggle between desire and one’s character. One’s character is full of experiences, environment and genes. Going back to the wallet example, libertarianism believes there was freewill upon making the decision. There is an inner act of choice, you are the sole author of the decision, and you could have chosen to return or not to return the wallet. Suppose you decide to return the wallet to your professor, it was your choice to fight off the desire to keep the money. In this case, you decided to be morally …show more content…
People make assumptions that they are free, in the sense that supports moral responsibility. People also believe that everything that has happened to them is caused. The conflict between the freewill and causation assumption causes the problem of freewill. Soft determinism is the compatibilist explanation, which believes determinism and freewill can be both true. Ayer defends this view in the article “Freedom and Necessity.”Freewill in terms of moral responsibility requires determinism to be true. Human actions are random and are not free if indeterminism is true. An action that requires character also requires determinism to be true. Ayer also defines freewill as unforced. A person would be free and morally responsible if their choices were not forced. If one is forced, he or she is no longer free or responsible for their actions. An example of this could be committing a robbery if someone has a gun pointed to you. You are forced to listen to the person with the gun, and would not have committed a robbery