Michael S. Lorrey writes:
> Who ever said that free will = freedom from willfulness?
Beats me. What I wrote is that you can't have willfulness and freedom from
willfulness simultaneously. To be completely free means to be free from
willfulness as well as it means to be free from anything else. So, as you imply,
"free will" does *not* equal freedom from willfulness.
Rather, "Free will" = a self contradiction.
This is because "free" means unattached, not controlled or influenced by another
force or interest. Will requires deliberate choice and is therefore not free of
deliberation nor of choice.
Will is bound to that which drives it.
Therefore, will cannot be free.
--J. R.
"After all, the Internet was built to help defend the free
world from attack by governments." --Anonymous
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