Frankfurt-style compatibilism notwithstanding, if a prophesied agent's deliberative process is pre-determined by foreknowledge, the will's authenticity is undermined, as Kant argued in the Critique of Pure Reason regarding causalnecessity and rational autonomy.
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
Pre-determined(as describing whether an action is already settled before the person acts)
Decided or set in advance, before it actually happens; fixed by prior causes or conditions.
Rational autonomy(as what Kant believed was undermined by causal necessity)
The freedom to govern yourself through your own reasoning and decisions, rather than being controlled by forces outside your conscious control.
Will's authenticity(as what is being undermined or damaged)
Whether your choices come from your true self and genuine desires—whether your decisions are really *yours* rather than forced or controlled by outside forces.
causal necessity(Hume's account in EHU 7.2.28–29; 8.1.5)
The constant conjunction of similar objects together with a customary inference of the mind from one to the other; the feeling of necessary connection is a product of the imagination, not an objective force in the world.
compatibilism(Offered as a response to the traditional problem of free will)
The philosophical position that free will and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism being true
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.