Posted: Oct 06, 2017 7:54 pm
By freely choosing to act, not making myself act. There may even be an element of surprise in the choice I freely make. (although I'm feeling like I'm going a bit out on a limb now)
What are the alternatives, that someone else made you act or that circumstances compelled you or that your action was just a random surprise?
Coercion isn't freedom.
And we can rule out random surprise - I'm not free if I turn my will over to dice.
If free will means anything at all it surely means that I make myself do things.
Have you considered the possibility that making yourself do things is like making you the warden of your own prison. Where's the freedom in that?