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    It is not the case that A human being is not endowed with freedom in the ordinary sense of the term.

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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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    • 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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