• Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    9 months ago

    Who said I had materialist free will?

    I’m just pointing out various inconsistencies and errors in thought. Whether I have a personal position that is super smart or the worst thing you’ve ever heard wouldn’t change the fact that these analyses or claims have the faults I’ve pointed out.

    • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      9 months ago

      So you’re debating 19th century German philosophers on behalf of a 19th century german philosopher. All I mean by determinism is that free will doesn’t exist.

      • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        9 months ago

        Marx is a 19th century German philosopher, though his philosophy was dead-set on building a framework for overthrowing capitalism. Diamat is weird German philosophy, it’s about 80% of why it’s so hard to understand in the first place.

        So, philosophy nerds tend to separate determinism from free will for the purpose of asking whether they are compatible. When I see people saying free will doesn’t exist, that determinism is instead what’s up, and that science is saying things about the matter, I interpret you’re an incompatibilist that believes in a materialist determinism and an absence of free will. I see other folks in the comments making similar statements, including fatalistic ones.

        So where am I going wrong?

        • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          9 months ago

          You’re wrong in assuming free will does exist. I’m agnostic about hard line determinism, I just use it as a stand in for the antithesis of assuming there is free will. I’ve said this before, but “free will” assumes a human above nature and a soul like entity. I refer you to the Lemmygrad side for what does exist if there’s no free will.

          • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            9 months ago

            When I said, “where am I going wrong?” I was obviously referring to the summary I had just given, none of which included “I assume free will exists”.

            So, were am I going wrong in that summary?

            • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.mlOP
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              9 months ago

              The summary is pretty much correct, but I can not tell if you have held on to your initial position that compatibilism is correct. One of the first comments science cannot prove the existence of free will, but I have yet to see even a coherent philosophical argument for it.

              • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                5
                ·
                9 months ago

                You are incorrect about what things I’ve said but it’s become redundant with the other threads so I’m going to stop replying to this particular chain.