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What Is Free Will?
i define free will in terms of the control and action that's required for a particular type of moral responsibility. A so dirk peraboon was maybe one of the first to kind of use this phrase of basic desert. So understood in this way, free will is a kind of powerr ability. Ah, an agent has to possess in order to justify certain types of basically deserved judgments, attitudes and treatments. And it would be in response to sions or actions the agent performed or failed to perform. But these reactions would be justified on purely backward looking grounds. That's what makes them basic a, and without appeal to consequentialist or forward looking considerations like future protection or future ation