ABSTRACT
Freedom and libertarianism We have a very strong intuition and a very strong feeling that we, as human beings, generally have freedom of the will and freedom of the action. It seems that in most situations we can do this or that; namely, we can do action A or we can refrain from doing action A. It seems that
it is the case that it is so even in situations in which there is no reason to refrain from doing A-for example in escaping from fi re-still it seems that “ontological” situation is thus that nothing inside or outside us (as agents) is such that would not allow us to refrain from doing A in that circumstances. Of course, there may be, and there are, situations in which some agents are completely determined what they will do next or what will happen. There may be cases of complete determination even if our world is such that it contains real freedom for the will and action-for example, full psychological determination (psychopathological cases or acting under alcohol or drugs, etc.) or environmental situation in which there is no possibility to “exercise freedom” because we instinctively do what we do or environmental situation in which “physical forces” are so overwhelming that agent’s will and agent’s acting is without signifi cance and without impact (even on agent himself).
