{"title":"What is Free Will","authors":"Liu Jun","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/9189.003.0015","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Free will is a concept put forth by the Philosophical School of Law which extracts the concept from reason by using the method of metaphysics.Its purport is to find a kind of moral code analogical to the law of nature and to find the law of liberty to be followed by human beings with the ultimate purpose of building a moral theory as accurate as sciences such as physics.Therefore free will is the ability of pure reason to make laws and to comply with them.Only in this sense can we say that the will is really free.","PeriodicalId":17003,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Shandong University","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Shandong University","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9189.003.0015","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Free will is a concept put forth by the Philosophical School of Law which extracts the concept from reason by using the method of metaphysics.Its purport is to find a kind of moral code analogical to the law of nature and to find the law of liberty to be followed by human beings with the ultimate purpose of building a moral theory as accurate as sciences such as physics.Therefore free will is the ability of pure reason to make laws and to comply with them.Only in this sense can we say that the will is really free.