Hi Steve and All --
On Sat., 9/10/2011 at 3:01 PM, "Steven Peterson" <[email protected]>
said to dmb:
In the recent past you called that minimalist view of free will
(that we can do what we want, we choose based on our values)
merely "value determinism." I keep saying that that is all that
we need for moral responsibility (that morally responsibility
only depends on the fact that we do what we want rather than
on the separate question of whether or not what we want is
causally determined). ...
My compliments, Steve! This is the most intelligent statement on the
subject of Free Will that I have seen here since mid-April.
What we want is indeed based on our values. Our response to Value is not a
"choice" but a preference. Therefore, it is WE who determine our own wants,
desires and choices, and it is WE who are held accountable for the morality
of our value-based actions. Human beings are value-sensible creatures. No
extracorporeal condition or restriction -- biological, social, intellectual,
or causal -- is necessary for the individual's exercise of Free Will.
That, I submit, is the very purpose of the cognizant agent in an amoral
universe.
Valuistically speaking,
Ham
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