Posted: Oct 07, 2017 10:22 am
GrahamH wrote:
How else could you be free? What are the alternatives, that someone else made you act or that circumstances compelled you or that your action was just a random surprise?
If free will means anything at all it surely means that I make myself do things.
No. When you make yourself act, it does not mean that you have no choice, it more likely means that your preferred option is difficult, so that you have to "make yourself" do it, by overcoming any reluctance or laziness on your part.
EDIT: It remains possible that you give up trying to do your preferred option, perhaps because it is just too difficult. Then, you go for the next best one, to make it less difficult.