Thoughts on Galen Stawson's Argument Against Free Will Defenses

I thought I laid out an argument as to why you cannot, in a reasonable fashion, to choose. To choose, one must already have principles of choice, which I called P2. It is in light of P2 that P1 is chosen; P1 representing preferences, values, pro-attitudes, ideals - in the light of which one chooses how to be. But for this to be so one must have chosen P1, in a reasoned,conscious, intentional fashion. Here we are setting out on a regress that we cannot stop. True self-determination is impossible because it requires the actual completion of an infinite series of choices of principles of choice. In order to make decisions, one must already have P2 to judge P1.

The last 2/3 of my reply was relating it to a line I enjoy from Marx's the German Ideology. If you didn't understand it, he was making light of the fact that those who try and insists they get notions out of their head, such as gravity, as so to be free not to drown. I thought it was quite funny in reflecting the material conditions that shape the judgement one can make. I apologize if you found it irrelevant. I did not mean to upset you. I simply thought it was well articulated.

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