Free choice
Hey, what's up? I enjoy reading everything here and am really looking forward to it.
I have a question. I went through your articles here about free choice, etc.
I don't understand how there is free choice. After all, according to the picture of the choice that you call teleological, the person chooses not because there is a reason for his choice, but because there is a purpose for his choice, meaning that he manages to translate the future purpose into a reason for his current action. All of this would only explain to us that the principle of free choice does not contradict the principle of causality, but seemingly it still follows that the will is not free, because even if the person decided based on a purpose that is important to him, such as the desire to meet with a friend, etc., the fact that the friend is important to him and he wants to meet with him is still related to previous events with the friend, such as shared experiences that they have accumulated or a certain belief in the value of friendship. Or, for example, in another example, a person who decides to give charity in order to realize some value and purpose, such as the value of helping others, then the fact that this purpose is important to him is related to the fact that he has deepened and observed or educated himself about the importance of this value, or all kinds of experiences and insights that he has accumulated throughout his life that have made him value the value.
I mean to say that even though we called it teleological choice, we still haven't managed to get out of the mess that everything has a reason and in any case there is no option to choose because every choice, even a choice for a purpose (a choice in order to, not a choice because) happens because of previous reasons that if we follow them, we will reach the moment when the person was born and the experiences he went through and the environment in which he was raised,
In other words, you came to claim that a person does not choose because of his impulses, but rather that he has the real ability to choose future values and goals and has a certain ability to weigh purpose against his current efforts and decide, etc.
So I ask that it is not true, because whether he will have that purpose that he chooses for himself or whether the purpose will be strong enough in his eyes for him to choose it is seemingly completely related to the experiences he has had and the insights he has learned during his life, etc., up to a chain that if we follow it, we will reach the moment he was born.
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