More precisely, the determinist view considers that actions are in fact a result of previous manifested circumstances and that freedom is not an important factor in the life of the individual precisely because they cannot surpass and avoid the power of circumstances. On the other hand, Honderich wonders whether indeed the determinist view is entirely correct, taking into account any possible considerations of the possibility to choose and the possibility to decide on a different path in a certain day.
From the point-of-view of two relatively conflicting ideas, more precisely the idea of conditionality and the one of choice, Honderich considers that freedom is also the ability to actually influence the present by making a different choice at a certain moment in time. In this sense, he uses both the idea of the determinist view, that of complying with the circumstances; he...
At the same time however, he considered the man to be free from the perspective of his own power to choose. In this sense, fate or prerequisite affairs does not change without a certain influence, and man has the power to achieve this change precisely because the relation that is established at the level of his mind determines him to take actions according to an analysis of the circumstances. Moreover, through his actions and choices he influences the future circumstances.
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(Freedom and Determinism: A Framework) Let us figure out what as said by Kant the problem of freedom and determinism contains, as it seems to hypothetical cause. Kant pointed out that we fetch a representative in her act to start a wholly fresh string of outcomes, and that for philosophers to state that it would have been adequate for ethical accountability if she had simply acted willingly is only