Free Will ?

[Foolardi]

Endowed to mankind from our Creator and is being drained
from us as I speak.Or write. Or possibly Babble.
Since the devil no longer needs to hide.
Who'd a thought.Or thunk.Certainly not our Grandparents
from the 20's and 30's. Definately not any of Walt Disney's
Mouseketeer. Especially what few are left.Hardly a pleasant
thought.In point of fact ,few thoughts today are pleasant.
Again ... Now why is that.Maybe on account the Devil
wears Prada. Because wearing fashionable chic clothing has a tendency
to make one feel ... superior.Worse tendencies have plagued mankind.
Like the despicable tendency to watch - Morning Joe -.
About as fashionable as being an Orthodox Jew,in charge
of properly slaughtering cattle so as to endure they feel no pain.
The practice called Shechitah in order to produce Kosher meat.
No such ability involved by either those who tune into
- Morning Joe - lest of which those regulars like adult brat
Donnie Deutsch.Who in his younger years managed to appear
on the hit TV game show - The Match Game -. The Deutsch could not manage
a single match.Virtually out-Deutsching hisself.Do not try that act
at home.Better to cut it as guest on - Morning Joe -.
In order for Free Will to succeed there need be some degree
of humanity in the air.Even if merely local Philosophers,or Poets.
Even if destined for :
Purgatorio
" Come follow me and let the world babble. "
Dante Alighieri { Canto V }

 

[luiza]

Standard mumbo jumbo from people who are under stress and becoming more and more hysterical .

 

[Foolardi]

Standard mumbo jumbo from people who are under stress and becoming more and more hysterical .

What part of La La Land have you adopted.
Yer obviously under some New Wave enhanced form of
Mass Formation Psychosis.Or the way Earthlings are under some
spell as in constant Gaslighting.Which cannot lead to other than
negative symptoms as in behavior that does not make sense
or is impulsive.Lacking emotional dignity.

 

[Foolardi]

" There is { Free Will } she (Philosophy personified ) said,
for there can be no rational nature that is not endowed
with free will .... "
-- Boethius,Anicus Manlius Severinus

 

[Libby von H]

" There is { Free Will } she (Philosophy personified ) said,
for there can be no rational nature that is not endowed
with free will .... "
-- Boethius,Anicus Manlius Severinus

Aquinas said it better, on that very theme

" But man acts from judgment, because by his apprehensive power he judges that something should be avoided or sought. But because this judgment, in the case of some particular act, is not from a natural instinct, but from some act of comparison in the reason, therefore he acts from free judgment and retains the power of being inclined to various things. For reason in contingent matters may follow opposite courses, as we see in dialectic syllogisms and rhetorical arguments. Now particular operations are contingent, and therefore in such matters the judgment of reason may follow opposite courses, and is not determinate to one. And forasmuch as man is rational is it necessary that man have a free-will."