Philosophy / Unit 4 Philosophy 0158 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Compatibilism
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The idea
Compatibilism: free will and determinism can both be true—freedom, rightly understood, does not require an uncaused choice, only the right kind of caused one.
In practice
Surveys of professional philosophers find compatibilism the most popular position—the work is in the "rightly understood."
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