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Classical Compatibilism

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Classical compatibilism: a free act is one caused by your own desires and unforced by external constraint—freedom is doing what you want.

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Hobbes and Hume held versions: the prisoner is unfree; the diner choosing dessert is free—determinism notwithstanding, nothing compelled the order.