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True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

~Corliss Lamont

Topics: According Acting Altogether Capacity Character Coercion Freedom Outside Self Subject True True Character True Freedom

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The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

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Topics: Free Free Will Gives Intuition Truth Us Will

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The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

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Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

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Topics: Actions Advancing Beings Constitute Crest Front Human Human Beings Movement Never Ongoing Stops

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I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

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Topics: Believe Choice Decisions Ethical Firmly Freedom Making Man Prerogative True True Freedom I Believe

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Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

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Topics: Amount Cannot Disregarded Does Intuition Itself Knowledge Philosophers Psychologists

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Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

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Topics: Am Choice Convinced Decide Decision Feeling Final Follow Free Making Men Moment More Most Really Roads Significant Two Which I Am

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The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

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Topics: Act Among Central Choosing Conduct Courses Ethics Realm Various Willing

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The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

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Topics: Conditioned Creative Dynamic Effects Genuine However Initiative Possesses Present Presents Prior Restricted

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: March 28th, 1902

Died: April 26th, 1995

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