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    A human being is not endowed with freedom in the ordinary... — Carmelics
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    A human being is not endowed with freedom in the ordinary sense of the term.

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    • 1.The human being is a part of Nature, existing within the same deterministic causal nexuses as other extended and mental beings.
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    • 2.Human minds and the events in human minds are simply ideas that exist within the causal series of ideas that follows from God's attribute of thought.
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    • 3.Human actions and volitions are as necessarily determined as any other natural events.
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    • 1.Compatibilist freedom—acting from one's own nature without external compulsion—is the philosophically operative sense of 'freedom' in moral contexts.
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    • 2.Spinoza's own account of the free man (homo liber) who acts from reason rather than passion presupposes a meaningful distinction between free and unfree human agency.
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    • 3.Therefore, determinism is consistent with the kind of freedom relevant to moral responsibility, undermining the claim's force as a denial of morally significant freedom.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental idealism establishes that deterministic causation applies only to phenomena, leaving the noumenal self as the proper locus of autonomous rational agency.
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    • 2.If the causal nexus of Nature as described by Spinoza operates only at the level of appearance, the argument from natural determinism cannot reach the ground of genuine moral freedom.
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    • 3.Spinoza's conflation of the mental and physical within a single deterministic substance begs the question against any two-standpoint account of human agency.
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    Spinoza engages in such a detailed analysis of the composition of the human being because it is essential to his goal of showing how the human being is a part of Nature, existing within the same deterministic causal nexuses as other extended and mental beings. This has serious ethical implications. First, it implies that a human being is not endowed with freedom, at least in the ordinary sense of that term. Because our minds and the events in our minds are simply ideas that exist within the caus
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    The human being is a part of Nature, existing within the same deterministic caus...
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