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    Supports→Disputes about free will ineluctably involve disputes about metaphysics and ethics.

    In assessing the significance of free will, we are forced to consider questions about rightness and wrongness, good and evil, virtue and vice, blame and praise, reward and punishment, and desert.

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    Desert (or deserts)(as used in ethics and justice)
    What someone deserves or has earned through their actions—like getting praise for good work or consequences for bad behavior.
    Vice(Balguy 1728)
    The contrary of virtue; non-conformity of moral actions to the reasons of things.
    blame(Scanlon's contractualist account)
    A reactive attitude directed at the attitudes a person actually holds, not a judgment about whether the person could have done otherwise.

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    free will(Kant's practical resolution of the third antinomy)
    An exemption from the laws of nature; the power of doing and forbearing
    significance(as used in philosophy of language)
    Meaning or importance; when a statement or phrase actually communicates something meaningful.
    virtue(Valla's voluntarist account of virtue)
    A quality that resides in the will, governing actions to which moral qualifications are assigned.

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    The term “free will” has emerged over the past two millennia as the canonical designator for a significant kind of control over one’s actions. Questions concerning the nature and existence of this kind of control (e.g., does it require and do we have the freedom to do otherwise or the power of self-determination?), and what its true significance is (is it necessary for moral responsibility or human dignity?) have been taken up in every period of Western philosophy and by many of the most important philosophical figures, such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, and Kant. (We can...

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