Leibniz - A freedom libertarian
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Authors
Beck, O
Publication Date
2015-01-01Journal Title
Studia Leibnitiana
ISSN
0039-3185
Volume
47
Issue
1
Pages
67-85
Type
Article
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Beck, O. (2015). Leibniz - A freedom libertarian. Studia Leibnitiana, 47 (1), 67-85. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.30247
Abstract
Leibniz s views about human freedom are much debated today. While traditionalists hold that Leibniz was a compatibilist about freedom, some commentators are now suggesting that Leibniz can be read as an incompatibilist. This exciting new reading is often based on Leibniz's "Necessary and Contingent Truths" (AVI, 4 B, 1514-1524; henceforth: NCT). This paper shall argue that NCT supports not only an understanding of Leibniz as a freedom incompatibilist, but more radically, as embracing a particularly intriguing kind of libertarianism. On this Leibnizian brand of libertarianism, a human action may be both free and unavoidable (in the sense that the agent could not have acted otherwise).
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.30247
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/282884
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