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Free Will Is Political
Then & Now: Philosophy, History & Politics
The Importance of Free Will and Responsibility
Free will is inevitably a political concept. Does this mean that how we talk about freedom and responsibility doesn't matter? No. But the perspective widens, the cultural, social, political and economic context of the waterfall matters. If willpower is like going to the gym, then you're more likely to be successful if you're well fed, watered, healthy, well educated and deployed with enough hours left over to be energised too. So we want to strengthen that context of social willpower by making sure resources that make us all stronger are as widely dispersed and of higher quality as possible.
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