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Voluntary Action and Rational Sin in Anselm of Canterbury
Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Historisk-filosofiska fakulteten, Filosofiska institutionen, Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-1194-4141
2016 (engelsk)Inngår i: British Journal for the History of Philosophy, ISSN 0960-8788, E-ISSN 1469-3526, Vol. 24, nr 2, s. 215-230Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
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Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) holds that freedom of the will is a necessary condition for moral responsibility. This condition, however, turns out to be trivially fulfilled by all rational creatures at all times. In order to clarify the necessary conditions for moral responsibility, we must look more widely at his discussion of the nature of the will and of willed action. In this paper, I examine his theory of voluntariness by clarifying his account of the sin of Satan in De casu diaboli. Anselm agrees with Augustine that the sinful act cannot be given a causal explanation in terms of a distinct preceding act of will or desire or choice. He thus rejects volitionalist accounts of Satan's sin and thus of voluntary action in general. He moves beyond his predecessor, however, in insisting on the necessity of an explanation in terms of reasons, and his theory of the dual nature of the rational will is designed to meet this demand. A comparison of Satan's case with the case of the miser of De casu diaboli 3, finally, shows that Anselm's account requires that acts of the will or ‘willings’ qualify as voluntary, a suggestion as interesting as problematic.

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2016. Vol. 24, nr 2, s. 215-230
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-287366DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2015.1057687ISI: 000372840300003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-287366DiVA, id: diva2:922645
Tilgjengelig fra: 2016-04-24 Laget: 2016-04-24 Sist oppdatert: 2017-11-30bibliografisk kontrollert

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