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Anselm on Freedom$
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Katherin Rogers

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780199231676

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2008

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231676.001.0001

The Purpose, Definition, and Structure of Free Choice

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(p. 55 ) 3 The Purpose, Definition, and Structure of Free Choice
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Anselm on Freedom
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Katherin A. Rogers (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231676.003.0004

Free choice is the ability to keep justice, which Anselm defines as rightness of will kept for its own sake. He proposes a hierarchical analysis of free choice which prefigures the work of Harry Frankfurt. Contrary to one common interpretation, he does not foreshadow a Kantian ethic, but rather adheres to the standard eudaemonism of his day.

Keywords:   justice, rightness of will, Harry Frankfurt, Kantian ethic, eudaemonism

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