Assertion: person's action | /r/HasProperty | free
Facets:
value: according to hard determinists
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: According to hard determinists, no human action is free, but human choices are free.
text: Soft determinists claim that human actions can be free and determined at the same time.
text: According to soft determinists (or "compatibilists"), human actions are free only if nothing causes them.
text: The indeterminist claims that insofar as nothing causes human actions, those actions are free.
text: or "soft"-) determinism, Aristotle's active self-determinism says that actions are free if they are voluntary.
text: More specifically, scholastics like Thomas Aquinas and later Thomists (such as Domingo Báñez) are often interpreted as holding that a human action can be free even though the agent in some strong sense could not do otherwise than he did.
text: Whether an action is free or not depends on the type of cause, not on the absence of causation and necessity.