 I have been trying to say is true, then we have a prerogative which some would attribute only to God: each of us, when we act, is a prime mover unmoved. In doing what we do, we cause certain events to happen, and nothing— or no one— causes us to cause...  The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World - Page 32by Owen Flanagan - 2009 - 304 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Emilio Santoro - Law - 2003 - 306 pages
...tradition. 'a prime mover unmoved': we are only autonomous when our actions «cause certain events to happen. and nothing .. or no one .. causes us to cause those events to happen» tChisholm. l964. 33l. It is clear that. as Gerald Dworkin tl976. 24l emphasises. «to insist on this... | |
 | Christopher Grau - Matrix (Motion picture). - 2005 - 351 pages
...of free will, the philosopher Roderick Chisholm wrote: [I]f what I have been trying to say is true, then we have a prerogative which some would attribute...mover unmoved. In doing what we do, we cause certain events to happen, and nothing — or no one — causes us to cause those events to happen. (Chisholm,... | |
 | John Martin Fischer - Philosophy - 2005 - 312 pages
...the brain, was caused by the agent and not by any other events" (18). A free agent has, therefore, "a prerogative which some would attribute only to...each of us, when we act, is a prime mover unmoved" (23). This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the... | |
 | Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - Philosophy - 2007 - 897 pages
...brain, was caused by the agent and not by any other events" [pg. 356]. A free agent has, therefore, "a prerogative which some would attribute only to...each of us, when we act, is a prime mover unmoved" |pg. 358]. This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy... | |
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