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The Augustinian origins of free will
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The Augustinian origins of free will

written by Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard

With the progress of science, particularly neuroscience, the possibility of free will is increasingly called into question. Every day, we discover new determinisms, i.e. conditionings to act in a certain way in a given context. Man's capacity for self-determination, which we hold so dear, may appear to be nothing more than an illusion. But before modern science got to grips with it, the question of free will already had a long history. Let's go back to the origins of a founding idea in the history of the West.

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Philosophy? One, undisciplined, without art or share
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Philosophy? One, undisciplined, without art or share

By Giovanni Ryffel · May 11, 2019
In the age of the triumph of technology, we love specialization. Happiness can almost be equated with being the only expert in a discipline, even if it's the Rubik's Cube. In this context, philosophy seems to be at a loss: the discipline that used to teach how to ask questions about all other disciplines, is it now nothing more than a vague discourse on a little bit of everything and, ultimately, a little bit of nothing? Should it then betray its original vocation and become just another specialized discipline, as is already the case in many universities?