A nice review of a book that comes along at the right time for me...it may help me clarify my struggle to understand and conceptualize the role and meaning of free will. "Why do we think we have free will? Where does the belief come from? Can we do without it and still be ethical, and, if so, how? And if free will is a dead end... why have we stuck with it so long? Why have we been so reluctant to relinquish or at least modify the belief that individuals are independent from group, history, and context, as moral actors who originate their actions?... [I]t was in the ways that thinking shaped desire and desire shaped thinking that intervention to substantially change moral actions was thought to be possible and could be initiated. In other words... moral transformation was consequent upon a systematic, and thoroughgoing transformation in interpretation -- of the world, of the self, of the self and human person in the world -- as it recast meaning and redirected motivation."
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:58:30 +0000
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