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Definition:
In philosophy, the concept of libertarianism refers to the idea that human free will
is a necessary precondition of moral responsibility and, in fact, humans do have this
free will. According to the standard libertarian position, human acts cannot be wholly
determined by prior states or natural laws. It is granted that such states and laws
may have an influence upon human decisions, but nevertheless those decisions are, in
principle, not predictable by reference to those states and laws. Thus, determinism
(or at least "hard" determinism) is not true and humans have moral responsibility for
their actions.
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