Freedom of will

Freedom of will; Chisholm’s Libertarianism.

Much has been debated on the issue of complete freedom of will or the view that our will is caused by other factors that we have not chosen in our lives. There are basically three positions that philosophers have adopted in regard to this issue and these include; libertarianism, determinism and compatibilism. Among the three positions, the one that Roderick Chisholm is said to defend is that of libertarianism and this he discusses in the majority of his articles one of which this wonderful essay entitled, “Human Freedom and the self”. In this essay, it is clear that Chisholm bases his argument on a libertarian stance. This is flanking with the principle of compatibility. Just like other libertarians, this writer believes in free will and makes out that freedom cannot be mixed with compatibility.

Chisholm does not put aside the idea of the causes but rather touches two of the causation types in his discussion. The first causation type is the transeunt where on state of affairs or an event causes another event. The second causation is called the immanent in which an event or a state of affair is caused by an agent. An agent can be defined as a causer that has not been caused by something else in nature or simply an uncaused causer that is not influenced by any law of nature. Therefore, the immanent causation is usually based on the agent-event relationship

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