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    The will is the primary source of freedom in a human being. — Carmelics
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    The will is the primary source of freedom in a human being.

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    • 1.The will is not constrained by the structure of the world, by beliefs, or by the intellect's judgment.
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    • 2.In the final analysis, it is the will rather than the judgment of the intellect that determines the action the agent performs.
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    • 3.Because the will wills freely, the agent performs the action freely.
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    • 1.Aquinas argues the intellect moves the will by presenting its object (the good), making reason the formal cause of free choice.
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    • 2.If the will's exercise depends on the intellect's apprehension of the good, freedom is located in the rational judgment, not will alone.
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    • 3.Philip Chancellor's voluntarism thus conflates the efficient cause of action with the source of its freedom.
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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical account shows freedom consists in the alignment of first- and second-order desires, not in an uncaused faculty of will.
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    • 2.A will that acts independently of rational structure is not free but arbitrary, since freedom requires reflective endorsement of one's motivations.
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    Philip modifies this position (McCluskey 2001). He thinks that only the final activity of the intellect is performed freely, that is, the final judgment about what course of action to take. This is because Philip thinks that with respect to the previous activities of the intellect, activities such as identifying possible courses of action and deliberating over them, the intellect suffers from certain constraints. These constraints have to do with the structure of the world around us which in tu
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