Not passion's slave

Authors
Publication date 2010
Journal Emotion Review
Volume | Issue number 2 | 1
Pages (from-to) 68-75
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract Bob Solomon claimed that we are not passion’s slaves. I examine whether or not we are, considering universal determinism. I argue that we indeed are free, or at least that we can be, and try to understand this. Free will resides in the presence of alternative action options, in our ability to freely search for, detect, or create them, in our ability to use them, and in our ability to, in some measure, free ourselves from the automatic impact of external and internal determinants.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073909345543
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