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Freedom in the World

Published on December 9th, 2009.

Our desire to be responsible for our actions is a desire for our actions to be our own, for our responses to the world to be of our own making. It is not, however, a desire that the world itself be of our own making. The freedom necessary for responsibility is a freedom within the world, not a freedom from it. The Reason View recognizes that freedom within the world requires the ability to see and appreciate the world for what it is.

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Susan Wolf, Freedom Within Reason (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 93.

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