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    There is a middle-ground between perfect conformity to re... — Carmelics
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    There is a middle-ground between perfect conformity to reason and being caused to act by natural forces.

    Free Will & ForeknowledgeMoral Responsibility
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    • 1.We always act under the 'guise of the good,' with the will necessarily aimed at what is objectively and subjectively rational and reasonable.
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    • 2.When we act immorally, we are either weak-willed or misusing our practical reason by willing badly.
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    • 3.We lack the capacity to aim to act on an explicitly immoral maxim because the will is identified with practical reason.
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    • 1.Aristotle's akrasia demonstrates agents can act against their own recognized rational judgment without external compulsion.
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    • 2.If weakness of will involves acting contrary to one's best rational assessment, it constitutes a distinct third category irreducible to either rational conformity or mechanical causation.
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    • 3.Davidson's anomalous monism shows that intentional akratic action is causally explicable yet not reducible to blind natural forcing, undermining the dichotomy's exhaustiveness.
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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical account of will shows that agents can identify with non-rational desires through second-order volitions, constituting genuine self-authorship outside pure reason.
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    • 2.An agent who wholeheartedly endorses a passion-driven maxim exercises reflective autonomy without conforming to practical reason, falsifying the claim's implied exhaustive partition.
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    A different interpretive strategy, which has gained prominence in recent years, focuses on Kant’s apparent identification, in Groundwork III, of the will and practical reason. One natural way of interpreting Kant’s conception of freedom is to understand it in terms of the freedom and spontaneity of reason itself. This in turn apparently implies that our wills are necessarily aimed at what is rational and reasonable. To will something, on this picture, is to govern oneself in accordance with reas
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