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    It is not the case that The laws governing the will cannot be natural laws.

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    • 1.Compatibilists like Hume argue that freedom of the will consists in acting from one's own desires and reasons, not in being uncaused.
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    • 2.If the will can be free while determined by one's character and motivational states, then natural laws governing those states need not undermine free will.
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    • 3.Kant's 'negative freedom' presupposes an incompatibilist definition of freedom that is itself a contested philosophical assumption, not a neutral starting point.
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    • 1.Spinoza argues that rational laws governing the will are themselves a species of natural law, expressible within a single unified causal order.
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    • 2.If practical reason and its normative laws supervene on or are identical with natural processes in the brain, the distinction between natural and rational law collapses.
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    • 1.Natural laws govern the movements of the body, the workings of the brain and nervous system, and environmental effects on the agent as a material being.
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    • 2.Having the will governed by such natural laws is inconsistent with the will being free in the negative sense.
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