On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:40 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
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> But isn't self-determination part of the (premodern)
> notion of free will?
But isn't "free will" merely a theological notion positing a universal ability to resist "sin" and having nothing to do with "self- determination" in any sense? No Xtian theologian, as far as I know, has ever attributed "free will" to nonhuman animals. But human animals are (or are not) precisely as "self-determined" as any other animate creature!
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos