This is a paper I wrote a while ago. You love it.

[namelessjon]

The notion of freedom has plagued philosophers for millennia. Do humans posses genuine control over their actions? Or rather are we just parts of a great deterministic machine, such that my decision to snap my fingers is no more an instance of a free action than a log rolling down a hill? Moreover, if rational creatures truly have no control over

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[annie_linux]

When you're talking about libertarians, are you talking about the political philosophy that we should have really tiny, almost non-existent governments, or is this an alternative use of the word. I could see the political libertarians trying to justify the concept of freedom of thought in order to sustain their (slightly) crazy political ideologies.

[namelessjon]

libertarianism is the name for the philosophy that claims that Free will is true and determinism is false. I don't know what connection this has to the political philosophy, I'm pretty sure the free will usage predates them by quite a bit.