To do something of one’s
free will he must be morally responsible for work, but he is not morally
responsible when he has no power to avoid.
Alfred Ayer, an English philosopher who played a major role in the
logical positivist movement. He believes both that, we are free and yet that
our act are necessitated. According to him, a person can be both free and
determined.
Ayer argues that, this view
does justice to a moral agent and one is free when one goes through a process
of deciding whether or not to do an act.
It is commonly assumed both
that men are capable of acting freely, in the sense that is required to make
them morally responsible and that human behaviour is entirely governed casual
laws. So there arises conflict between these two assumption that gives rise to
the philosophical problem of the freedom of the will.
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