In the article, The Problem of Free Will, one of the first issues addressed is Walter Stace's opinion with the problem of free will. First off, the Free Will Thesis states that some of the actions that humans perform are free actions. An action is only a free action if the agent could have done otherwise than perform the action. That is, being able to do otherwise is a requirement for a free action. Stace says that if there is no free will, there can be no morality. He continues to say, "Morality is concerned with what men ought and ought not to do. But if a man has no freedom to choose what he will do, if whatever he does is under compulsion, then it does not make sense to tell him that he ought not to have done what he did and that he ought to do something different". .
Stace tries to reconcile the Free Will Thesis with determinism. Determinism says that every event is fixed by previous events and the laws of nature. The determinist claims that every event is fixed in this way by previous events and the laws of nature. Stace says that the problem with free will was created by the fact that "learned men", especially philosophers, have assumed an incorrect definition of free will, and then finding that there is nothing in the world which answers to their definition, have denied its existence. The philosophers who denied free will and by those who defended it say that determinism is inconsistent with free will.
Stace also tries to reconcile moral responsibility with determinism. Stace says, "To be held morally responsible for one's actions means that one may be justly punished or rewarded, blamed or praised, for them". If we assume that determinism is true, but that we are nevertheless free, it might be asked whether such a deterministic free will is compatible with moral responsibility. But determinism is incompatible with moral responsibility as is much as that it is incompatible with free will.
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