Test 3 Lds Perspectives

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What is agency?

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Free Agency is not doing what you want, its doing what you should.

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The question of Agency

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is what we fundamentally ARE

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Ontology

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The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being.

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2 Poblems of Lack of Ontology

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1. Teach people of what they are, and thus capable of
2. What they can do

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Who can make a covenant?

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Only a Moral Agent

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False Framing of the Argument

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Determinism--------Free Agency

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DETERMINISM, INDETERMINISM, AND HUMAN AGENCY

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Determinism is not harmful to agency, but in fact agency requires some determinism.

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Minimalist Defenition of Determinism

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determinism is the proposition that all events have meaningful antecendents, absent which the events (or things) would not occur.

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Indeterminism

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The proposition that events (and other things including human actions), have no meaningful antecendents.

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If indeterminism is True

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then all events are random

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If Minimalist Determinite

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all events have meaning

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What is required for the minimalist defenition of agency to be true?

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A strong link between events and thier antecedents.

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What is destructive to agency?

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mechanical and biological links as well as stimulus response links governed by environmental forces

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Human agency cannot arise from...

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non agentic substances, structures, processes

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Agency is not the opposite of determinism...

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agency is enfolded into the detrministic, and therefore meaningful, contextual, and worthwile universe

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HUMAN AGENCY AND FREE CHOICE

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nearly all analyses of agency in phil and psych define agency as freedom of choice...the freedom to choose what we will or will not do.

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There is no such thing as a geniunely free choice...

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however, this does not compromise our agency..we simply need to understand it differently

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What is inherent in the concept of choice?

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that there be grounds for the choice...that is to say, choices must be made for reasons

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Where do the grounds for our choices come from?

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experiences, desires, values, cultures, languages

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Thus, the grounds for our choices...

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compel us to act in one way over another, thus making our choices no longer "free choices".

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The Geniune Dilemma

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if we have no grounds for our choices, and thus no choices that are more right then others, then our actions have no rational, and thus no meaning

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What does the Geniune Dilemma require us to do?

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To either abondon the thesis that we are human agents, or to rethink our commitment to free chioce as teh defining essence of agency.

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Attempts to Resolve: ATTEMPT 1

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we determine grounds...but how do we choose how we choose our grounds? INFINITE REGRESS

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ATTEMPT 2

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grounds only influence, not determine our choices. INFLUENCE-------DETERMINISM. we distinguish between influence and determinism by invoking the conecept of agency. CIRCULAR

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ATTEMPT 3

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HOMUNCULUS--a choosing agent within the larger agent (i.e. soul). What are the grounds of the inner chooser? INFINITE REGRESS IF an inner chooser is making the choices, what is the value of of such agency?

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FREEDOM AS LIVING TRUTHFULLY

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there are ways of understanding agency and freedom that does not lead to these problems just discussed

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PUZZLE EXAMPLE

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very difficult puzzle presented, you choose as many solutions as possible, but it is outside of your realm of experience. Therefore, despite of your freedom to choose, you would not be free t solve the puzzle.

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What is neede in order to be free to solve the puzzle?

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you would need the "truth of the matter" of the puzzle.

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In context of the puzzle, how should we define agency?

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Not in terms of choosing, but in terms of having truth, or living truthfully.

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NECESSARY CONDITIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING AND FLOURISHING AGENCY

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FIVE CONDITIONS

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CONDITION 1

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We are preexistent eternal inelligent beings

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CONDITION 2

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We act and are not acted upon

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CONDITION 3

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Agency and Freedom Require truth

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CONDITION 4

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Agency requires a moral sphere in which to operate

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CONDITION 5

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Agency requires freedom of choice of a particular kind.

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CONDITION 6

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Requires some kind of embodiment