Свободата на волята
The Freedom of Will

Summary/Abstract: The author set forth his understanding that the problem of the freedom of will was one of the oldest and most significant philosophical problems, which had not ceased to attract people’s interest. If a person wanted to get orientated in the diversity of answers to that issue he was to face two groups namely those of determinists and indeterminists. The author rejected both indeterminism and determinism since he believed that both teachings were untrue. Moreover, they were not opposed at all as it seemed at first sight. They were bound by the common foundation which underlay their emergence: the thought that freedom and necessity were mutually incompatible. According to him the issue of choice underlay the teaching of the freedom or of the non-freedom of will. Those who were unconstrained were free as regards their will. Therefore according to the author the opposite of freedom was coercion rather than necessity which existed both in freedom and in coercion. The age-old “freedom – necessity” opposition appeared irrelevant and was replaced by something different namely: “freedom – coercion”.

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