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    Human beings are endowed with power over their own conduct. — Carmelics
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    Human beings are endowed with power over their own conduct.

    Free Will & ForeknowledgeMoral Responsibility
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    • 1.The very concept of a morally accountable being presupposes that that being has power over his conduct.
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    • 2.Human beings are morally accountable beings.
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    • 3.None of our moral practices of holding ourselves and others accountable would make sense if we did not believe ourselves and others to have power over our conduct.
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    • 1.All mental events, including volitions, are fully determined by prior physical states of the brain and antecedent causal chains.
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    • 2.If every volition is the inevitable product of prior causes, humans lack genuine power to have acted otherwise than they did.
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    • 3.The appearance of self-governance is a post-hoc rationalization of neurologically determined outcomes, not evidence of real causal power over conduct.
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    • 1.The moral practices of praise, blame, and accountability can be fully reconstructed on compatibilist grounds without requiring libertarian agent causation.
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    • 2.Strawson's reactive attitudes account and Dennett's heterophenomenology show moral responsibility is grounded in relational dispositions, not metaphysical self-origination.
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    • 3.That our practices presuppose power over conduct shows only that we operate with a folk-psychological assumption, not that the assumption is metaphysically vindicated.
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    Human beings must have power over their own actions (moral liberty).85%A person could not engage in planned conduct without being endowed wit...85%Human beings are capable of action81%It is possible that Reid is right that human beings are endowed with p...79%

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    In the second argument for moral liberty, Reid claims that none of our moral practices—our practices of holding ourselves and others accountable for their behavior—would make any sense if we did not believe ourselves and others to be endowed with power over conduct. He claims, in short, that the very concept of a morally accountable being presupposes that that being has power over his conduct. Since we are, he thinks, morally accountable beings, it follows that we are endowed with power over our
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