Hi Michael, Kinda depends on your perspective of that island.
If you knew it was an island in a larger environment / world with others "out there" - I think it would still arise in the same way it does now. If you saw it as the whole world with nothing / no-one beyond the horizons, even then I suspect it would / could. eg you could burn down all the trees on the island by exercising your free-will. Even without philosophizing, you may then conclude it had been a dumb decision, with feelings of "I wish I hadn't done that". I need to think before I act, I need to live with the consequences, etc. Ian On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Michael R. Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my tests of a philosophical idea, issue, tradition, whatever is - and > this is ahistorical, for sure - would it occur to me on a desert island? > Would it arise anywhere but out of an historical frame alignment, where you > signal you're a good serious philosopher by tackling the approved list of > questions and issues? > > I'm not sure that the issue of free will would arise on my desert island. > > But not everyone wants to "waken from the nightmare of history." It can be a > strange place. > > > MRB > http://www.fuguewriter.com > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
