What Makes Us Free / Was uns frei macht
An Essay on the Autonomy of the Will
Can our actions be free and responsible if they are causally determined? Yes, says Dietmar Hübner in this fascinating book, but they also have to be guided by something that transcends the causal order. In modern discourse, there is an overwhelming consensus that reasons can play this role. However, if reasons – be they moral or logical, mathematical or aesthetic – are not causal forces, what is their true essence? How do they affect our actions? And what meaning does this then give to human...
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Can our actions be free and responsible if they are causally determined? Yes, says Dietmar Hübner in this fascinating book, but they also have to be guided by something that transcends the causal order. In modern discourse, there is an overwhelming consensus that reasons can play this role. However, if reasons – be they moral or logical, mathematical or aesthetic – are not causal forces, what is their true essence? How do they affect our actions? And what meaning does this then give to human consciousness? Hübner’s book offers a rigorous introduction to a topic that continues to be of great relevance, elaborating an independent and original theory of free will.
2024, 408 pages